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Another Wet Year

Another Wet Year

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More precipitation records were set across much of South Dakota in 2019. Many areas saw above normal rain and snow for a third straight year.
Jen Hacker at the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls has some totals..

Hacker says the normal expectations for precipitation will be changing…
Hacker says the weather will be pretty calm into the weekend…

Temperatures over much of Alaska plunged to thirty to fifty below zero. Hacker says some of that very cold air will move our way….

Hacker says right now, they don’t see any major storms brewing on the horizon.

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