Cool Today and a Wet Week Ahead

Temperatures are really going to struggle today as cool air continues to be funneled into South Dakota. Combine that with cloudy skies and you have a recipe for some cool temperatures today. Highs only getting into the upper 40's and low 50's. Here is a model that shows the forecasted cloud cover and you will notice that it holds strong through much of the day.These images are three hours apart going from 10-4pm and show the clouds beginning to break up at the 4pm hour.

Looks like a wet week ahead though as the Hydrological Prediction Center (HPC) produced this forecast for the week.This shows that they (HPC) is expecting much of the area to get between one and two inches of rain between now and Saturday morning. This would not help the planting efforts that are taking place across much of the region because the fields need to be dry.

~KDLT Meteorologist Cody Matz