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SOUTH DAKOTA WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1139 AM CDT MON MAY 13 2013

MILD AIR...LOTS OF HIGH LEVEL CLOUDINESS...AND DRY WEATHER WERE
FOUND OVER SOUTH DAKOTA DURING THE NIGHT AND INTO THIS MORNING.
A MOSTLY CLOUDY OVERNIGHT SKY LEAD INTO PARTLY SUNNY TO CLOUDY
CONDITIONS AFTER SUNRISE. A BOUNDARY PUSHING EASTWARD ACROSS THE
DAKOTAS AND NEBRASKA WAS SWITCHING WINDS FROM SOUTHEAST OR SOUTH IN
THE EASTERN SECTIONS OF THESE STATES...TO WEST OR NORTHWEST AND
GUSTY BEHIND IT IN THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL SECTIONS. TEMPERATURES
HAVE BEEN RISING AT MANY LOCATIONS ACROSS THE REGION SINCE
MIDNIGHT...REACHING THE 60S TO MID 70S ACROSS MOST OF SOUTH DAKOTA
BY MID MORNING.

LOW TEMPERATURES ACROSS SOUTH DAKOTA OVERNIGHT WERE GENERALLY IN THE
MID 40S TO MID 50S. THREE OF THE COOLEST TOWNS IN THE STATE WERE
BROOKINGS...MADISON...AND SIOUX FALLS...ALL WITH LOWS OF 46 DEGREES
AROUND MIDNIGHT...FOLLOWED BY SLOWLY RISING TEMPERATURES. WATERTOWN
WAS ALSO ON THE COOLER SIDE...WITH 47. THE RAPID CITY WEATHER
SERVICE OFFICE WAS ONE OF THE MILDEST PLACES...ONLY DIPPING TO 62
DEGREES. BUFFALO WAS CLOSE BEHIND...WITH 57. IN THE BLACK HILLS..
LEAD REPORTED A MINIMUM OF 42 DEGREES...DEERFIELD HIT 46...CUSTER
DIPPED TO 49...AND PACTOLA DAM ONLY COOLED TO 53.

AT 11 AM CDT / 10 AM MDT...A PARTLY SUNNY TO CLOUDY SKY CONTINUED
OVER SOUTH DAKOTA. TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE 60S TO MID 70S EAST...
AND THE 70S TO MID 80S WEST. EXTREMES ON THE HOUR RANGED FROM 62
DEGREES AT WATERTOWN...TO 86 AT BOTH PHILIP AND THE RAPID CITY
AIRPORT. WINDS ACROSS MOST OF THE WESTERN THIRD OF SOUTH DAKOTA WERE
OUT OF THE NORTHWEST TO NORTH AT 14 TO 24 MPH...WITH GUSTS UP TO
30 MPH AT BUFFALO. CUSTER HAD LIGHT AND VARIABLE WINDS...AVERAGING
3 MPH. THE CENTRAL THIRD OF THE STATE HAD WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS AT
6 TO 13 MPH. MEANWHILE...THE EASTERN THIRD OF SOUTH DAKOTA HAD SOUTH
TO SOUTHWEST WINDS AT 14 TO 23 MPH.

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