Wide spread heavy rains fell across much of the area yesterday and last night, leading to flooded fields, roads and basements.
Todd Heitkamp at the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls says it was an unusual set of circumstances...
Heitkamp says the region needs a long stretch of dry weather to counter the rain, but it doesn’t look likely...
Over night rain of 2.9 inches helped set a new July record of 10.19 inches. The old record was 8.86 inches set in 1972.
