Beadle Bulls-eye is Back

It did prove to be a rather tricky travel day for some in our region... the rain/snow mix freezing on many bridges and roads made it quite dicey, hopefully you got to your destinations safely this past Holiday weekend. Another bulls-eye around Beadle county from this system, but just around an inch was reported from this system as opposed to the 3.5 inches last time. But we're lucky that we didn't get the snowstorm that they saw edging into the Ohio River Valley, that intense low pressure would not have been a fun thing to travel through. To recap this month though... the slight snow we saw Sunday didn't add much to the month for many people. In South Dakota, we saw a much drier and warmer November. We are about four inches BELOW what we're supposed to have and part of that was due to the first and third weeks of the month, with average temperatures 5-10 degrees above average. In fact we didn't see too many days dip below average, 12 days dipped just as few degrees below that mark while the other 18 days stayed at or well above average. And in the whole month, only 8 days had measurable precip. The warmer weather we had did keep a lot of that falling as rain, thus why we are behind on our snow total tally.

From the National Climate Prediction Center it looks like the next three months will continue this trend. Expect Dec.-Feb. to be at or just a bit above average. If this holds true, we could be talking about heavier, wetter snowfalls on the storms that do pass through.

~KDLT Meteorologist Jesse Ritka