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We look back at what will go down as one of the great storms in South Dakota history. We of course saw 48 inches fall 2 miles from Deadwood while an impressive 43 inches fell in the Black Hills town of Lead. What’s interesting about Lead, SD is that while this snowstorm was impressive there and it’s within the […]
As the first big winter storm of autumn 2013 winds down, so the counting has begun and may have ended. Up till now an incredible 48 inches of snow has been recorded near Deadwood, South Dakota while areas just outside of Rapid City reports 31 inches. For Rapid City itself, 23.1 inches has fallen within the […]
The much talked about storm that’s now pushing into the central Plains has already produced upwards of 20 inches of snow to parts of South Dakota with blizzard conditions closing I-90 in Wyoming and South Dakota. The low itself has a tight pressure gradient and is tightening as it draws warm, moist air up from the […]
There’s basically no change in the models with the first big storm coming to the Rockies and Plains but where there is change since last night’s post, well that’s with newly formed Tropical Storm Karen. Karen is currently a 65 mph storm and appears to be en-route to make a SE Louisiana or Mobile Bay, AL landfall […]
There is a lot of bad weather on the way as a storm system now enters the Pacific Northwest and is set to swing across the Rockies and eventually the Plains Friday through Sunday presenting heavy, wet snow to the Northern Rockies as well as the western high plains of Nebraska and South Dakota. As the […]
The first major storm of autumn is well underway across British Columbia, Washington and Oregon and has been bringing problems throughout the region with power outages being reported by the tens of thousands from parts of Vancouver and Victoria all the way down to Portland, OR with winds in excess of 60 mph and 24 hour rains in excess […]
As advertised here throughout this week, we saw a large temperature spread between the Northern Rockies and Lower Midwest with temperatures struggling to get much above the mid-30s while Missouri, Iowa up into Minnesota soared well into the 80s. One example I found was a 36 degree high at Yellowstone Lake, WY while it topped […]
Over the next 5-7 days the US pattern overall settles as the jet stream intensifies and roars nearly due west to east across the country. That’s a mild orientation of course with Pacific air crossing the country and locking any cold up in Canada. However these patterns tend to come at a price for the […]
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