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WEATHER SUMMARY FOR SOUTH DAKOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
817 PM CDT SUN SEP 7 2008
IT WAS A COOL LATE SUMMER AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTH DAKOTA...ESPECIALLY 
ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST WHERE LIGHT RAIN FELL MUCH OF THE DAY. 
TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST WERE 20 TO 25 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL 
FOR THE DATE...WHILE THE REST OF THE STATE WAS 10 TO 15 DEGREES 
BELOW NORMAL. RAINFALL DURING THE DAY ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST WAS 
GENERALLY UNDER A QUARTER OF AN INCH WITH OELRICHS REPORTING 0.30 
INCHES AND HOT SPRINGS 0.41 INCHES. THE RAIN SPREAD EASTWARD INTO
THE SOUTHWEST LATE WITH WINNER RECEIVING 0.08 INCHES UP TO 7 PM CDT. 
AFTERNOON SKIES WERE CLOUDY OVER THE SOUTH AND PARTLY SUNNY OVER THE 
NORTH.
HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 60S WERE COMMON NEAR AND 
EAST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER VALLEY AND NORTHWEST...THE MIDDLE AND 
UPPER 50S SOUTH CENTRAL AND NEAR THE BADLANDS...AROUND 50 DEGREES 
NEAR PINE RIDGE AND IN THE 40S IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE 
BLACK HILLS. ABERDEEN...HURON AND MOBRIDGE WERE THE WARMEST AT 65 
DEGREES WHILE IN THE BLACK HILLS...CUSTER STRUGGLED TO REACH 42 
DEGREES. 
AFTERNOON WINDS ACROSS THE NORTH WERE FROM THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST 
AT 5 TO 15 MPH...NORTHWEST OR WEST AT 5 TO 15 MPH ACROSS THE 
SOUTHEAST...AND LIGHT WESTERLY ACROSS THE SOUTH CENTRAL AND 
SOUTHWEST. 
AT 8 PM CDT LIGHT RAIN WAS FALLING SOUTH OF A HOT SPRINGS...WINNER
LINE. SKIES WERE CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL
...AND MOSTLY CLOUDY TO CLOUDY ELSEWHERE. MOST LOCATIONS HAD 
TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 50S WITH EXTREMES OF 47 DEGREES 
WITH LIGHT RAIN AT PINE RIDGE...TO 58 DEGREES AT MITCHELL. IN THE 
BLACK HILLS CUSTER WAS A BIT COOLER AT 41 DEGREES. WINDS WERE 
LIGHT.
ON THIS DATE IN 1895 TEMPERATURES COOLED TO 34 DEGREES AT HURON... 
30 DEGREES AT SIOUX FALLS...AND 29 DEGREES AT ABERDEEN. 
 
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SHEEHAN