It's Raining Again But Do We Really Need It?

More rain is faling in South Dakota this morning which would make the second big storm in a week for the state. However, in many cases this time of the year, areas are very dry from a hot and evaporation full summer. But not in our case. It was a fairly and cool summer, leaving many feeling like we didn't really have a summer. Well, by all this talk about a wet summer, i've bet you have guessed that we don't really "need" the rain right now. In fact, the experts at the Climate Prediction Center agree. The long term rainfall index is extremely moist for almost all of the state through September 26th.Meanwhile, the short term index shows that our soil moisture at the preseent level is actually near normal. But with the recent rains I expect that the soil will become quite moistThe good news is that things look to dry out later this week.

~KDLT Meteorlogist Cody Matz