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SOUTH DAKOTA WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
819 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2013

SHOWERS ENDED ACROSS NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AS LOW PRESSURE MOVED ACROSS EASTERN IOWA.
AFTERNOON RAINFALL WAS MAINLY UNDER A TENTH OF AN INCH BUT BROOKINGS
RECEIVED A BIT MORE WITH 0.18 INCHES. DRY HIGH PRESSURE EXTENDING
FROM SOUTHERN CANADA INTO THE WESTERN DAKOTAS BROUGHT A NORTHERLY
FLOW OF DRIER AIR AND CLEARING SKIES TO THE EAST...WHILE AFTERNOON
SKIES WERE MOSTLY SUNNY OVER MUCH OF THE WEST. AN EXCEPTION WAS NEAR
RAPID CITY WHERE A STUBBORN PATCH OF LOW CLOUDS LINGERED NEAR THE
EASTERN EDGE OF THE BLACK HILLS.

HIGH TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE UPPER 60S AND LOWER 70S ACROSS THE
STATE. THE FAR SOUTHEAST WAS THE WARMEST WITH YANKTON REACHING 75
DEGREES AND NEARBY SIOUX CITY IOWA AT 82 DEGREES. THE HIGHER
ELEVATIONS OF THE BLACK HILLS WERE A BIT COOLER WITH LEAD AT 63
DEGREES AND CUSTER 66 DEGREES.

AFTERNOON WINDS WERE FROM THE NORTH OR NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 20 MPH
WITH SOME HIGHER GUSTS. BY LATE IN THE AFTERNOON THE WIND NEAR THE
WESTERN BORDER WAS BECOMING EAST OR SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 20 MPH.

AT 8 PM CDT A PATCH OF CLOUDINESS LINGERED TO THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST
OF RAPID CITY. SKIES WERE PARTLY CLOUDY NEAR THE EASTERN BORDER
WHILE THE REMAINDER OF THE RUSHMORE STATE WAS CLEAR. TEMPERATURES
WERE FROM THE MID 60S TO AROUND 70 DEGREES WITH EXTREMES OF 64
DEGREES AT BROOKINGS...WATERTOWN AND YANKTON TO 71 DEGREES AT
MITCHELL. IN THE BLACK HILLS CUSTER WAS CLOUDY AND 55.

IN THE 24 HOUR PERIOD ENDING EARLY THIS EVENING HEAVIER RAINFALL OF
ONE HALF INCH TO AROUND AN INCH OCCURRED ACROSS THE NORTHWEST AND
NORTH CENTRAL. MUCH OF THIS RAIN FELL TUESDAY NIGHT AS A LINE OF
STORMS MOVED EASTWARD ACROSS THE AREA. HEAVIER AMOUNTS INCLUDE...

CITY                RAINFALL      CITY             RAINFALL

POLLOCK             0.58 INCHES   HOT SPRINGS      0.58 INCHES
BOWDLE              0.78          DUPREE           0.79
LEMMON              0.80          TIMBER LAKE      0.94
MOBRIDGE            0.97          PIERRE           1.15

ON THIS DATE IN 1956 THE MERCURY HIT OR EXCEEDED 100 DEGREES AT THE
FOLLOWING SITES...

100 DEGREES AT VERMILLION
101 DEGREES AT BRITTON...GETTYSBURG AND WINNER
102 DEGREES AT GANN VALLEY...MIDLAND AND MITCHELL
103 DEGREES AT ABERDEEN...ACADEMY...HURON AND MILLER
104 DEGREES AT FORESTBURG...MELLETTE...MURDO AND PIERRE
105 DEGREES AT KENNEBEC AND WOOD
106 DEGREES AT HIGHMORE
108 DEGREES AT FAULKTON


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SHEEHAN