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SOUTH DAKOTA WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1159 AM CDT SUN MAY 12 2013

A CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY SKY OVERNIGHT...LIGHT WINDS...AND HIGH
PRESSURE DRIFTING SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF SOUTH DAKOTA
BROUGHT A TOP FOUR COLDEST MOTHER`S DAY MORNING TO THE RUSHMORE
STATE. THE CHILLY AND DRY AIR THAT SETTLED INTO THE REGION SATURDAY
ON THE GUSTY NORTHWEST TO NORTH WINDS ALLOWED READINGS TO TUMBLE
INTO THE 20S TO LOW 30S ACROSS MUCH OF THE STATE...BUT THEN PLENTY
OF SUNSHINE THROUGH MID MORNING QUICKLY PUSHED TEMPERATURES INTO THE
MID 40S TO MID 50S.

LOW TEMPERATURES ACROSS SOUTH DAKOTA THIS MORNING VARIED FROM THE
20S ACROSS MOST OF THE EASTERN THIRD AND NORTH CENTRAL SECTION...TO
THE 30S AND LOWER 40S ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE STATE. THREE OF THE
COLDEST PLACES WERE ABERDEEN...TURTON...AND WESTPORT...ALL REPORTING
MINIMUMS OF 22 DEGREES. PIERRE WAS ALMOST AS COOL...WITH 25. ONE OF
THE LEAST CHILLY SPOTS THIS MORNING WAS PINNACLE...ONLY DIPPING TO
42 DEGREES. THE RAPID CITY WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE AND PARMALEE WERE
BOTH CLOSE BEHIND...WITH 40. IN THE BLACK HILLS AREA...LOWS RANGED
FROM 29 DEGREES AT NEMO...TO 34 AT DEERFIELD.

ALTHOUGH NO RECORDS FOR THE DATE WERE SET THIS MORNING...SIOUX
FALLS...HURON...AND OUR NEIGHBORS DOWN IN SIOUX CITY IOWA MADE IT
INTO THE TOP FOUR COLDEST STARTS FOR MOTHER`S DAY. SIOUX
FALLS...WITH A LOW OF 26 DEGREES...WAS THE THIRD COLDEST MINIMUM FOR
MORTHER`S DAY. THE COLDEST WAS 20 DEGREES...BACK IN 1946.
HURON...ALSO WITH A LOW OF 26 DEGREES...WAS THE FOURTH COLDEST
MINIMUM FOR MOTHER`S DAY. THE COLDEST WAS 19 DEGREES...BACK IN 1981.
IN SIOUX CITY IOWA...THE LOW WAS 29 DEGREES...WHICH RANKED SECOND...
BEHIND THE MINIMUM OF 28 IN 1946.

AT 11 AM CDT / 10 AM MDT...A MOSTLY SUNNY TO SUNNY SKY CONTINUED
OVER SOUTH DAKOTA. TEMPERATURES WERE MAINLY IN THE 50S AND LOWER
60S. EXTREMES ON THE HOUR RANGED FROM 48 DEGREES AT BROOKINGS...TO
64 AT CUSTER. WINDS ACROSS MOST OF THE WESTERN HALF OF SOUTH DAKOTA
WERE OUT OF THE SOUTHEAST OR SOUTH AT 5 TO 16 MPH. GUSTS OUT OF THE
SOUTHEAST UP TO 20 MPH WERE REPORTED AT PIERRE. MEANWHILE...THE
EASTERN HALF OF THE STATE HAD LIGHT AND VARIABLE WINDS 3 TO 12 MPH.

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