AWUS83 KFSD 270215
RWSSD 
SDZ001>074-271800-
WEATHER SUMMARY FOR SOUTH DAKOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
815 PM CST THU NOV 26 2009
IT WAS ANOTHER MILD NOVEMBER DAY WITH A WARM FRONT EXTENDING FROM 
WEST OF MOBRIDGE...NEAR TIMBER LAKE TO NEAR MISSION. TEMPERATURES IN 
THE WARMER AIR WEST OF THE WARM FRONT WERE 20 TO 25 DEGREES ABOVE 
NORMAL. AFTERNOON SKIES WERE MOSTLY SUNNY EVEN AS HIGH LEVEL CIRRUS 
CLOUDS DRIFTED OVERHEAD. 
AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE MIDDLE AND UPPER 30S NEAR 
THE MINNESOTA BORDER...THE UPPER 30S AND LOWER 40S ACROSS THE 
REMAINDER OF THE EAST...FROM THE UPPER 40S TO THE MIDDLE 50S CENTRAL 
AND IN THE UPPER 50S AND LOWER 60S WEST. AT 65 DEGREES FORT MEADE 
WAS THE WARMEST IN THE STATE. 
AFTERNOON WINDS WERE SOUTHERLY AT 5 TO 15 MPH ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND 
NEAR ABERDEEN...WESTERLY AT 10 TO 20 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS ACROSS 
THE NORTHWEST ...AND LIGHT FROM THE SOUTHWEST OR WEST ACROSS THE 
REST OF THE STATE. 
AT 8 PM CST SKIES WERE CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY WITH HIGH LEVEL CIRRUS 
THE PREDOMINATE CLOUD TYPE. CLOUDS WERE THICKENING NEAR THE MONTANA 
BORDER. TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 40S ACROSS THE 
WEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL...AND THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 30S NEAR AND EAST 
OF THE MISSOURI RIVER VALLEY. A FEW LOCATIONS ACROSS THE NORTHEAST 
AND EAST CENTRAL HAD COOLED INTO THE UPPER 20S. TEMPERATURE EXTREMES 
WERE FROM 28 DEGREES AT BROOKINGS...MADISON AND SISSETON TO 46 
DEGREES AT WINNER. WINDS WERE FROM THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 
10 MPH ALONG AND EAST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER VALLEY...AND LIGHT 
WESTERLY TO THE WEST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER VALLEY. 
THIS DATE IN 1996 WAS BITTERLY COLD WITH TEMPERATURES WELL BELOW 
ZERO. LOW TEMPERATURES FOR SELECTED SITES INCLUDE...
10 BELOW ZERO AT MOBRIDGE
12 BELOW ZERO AT SIOUX FALLS
14 BELOW ZERO AT SISSETON
17 BELOW ZERO AT BROOKINGS AND HURON
19 BELOW ZERO AT REDFIELD
24 BELOW ZERO AT ABERDEEN
ON THIS DATE IN 2001 HURON RECEIVED 9.5 INCHES OF SNOW...SIOUX 
FALLS 12.1 INCHES AT MITCHELL 15 INCHES.
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SHEEHAN