For much of the region it has been a very wet year and reports are starting to reflect that.
The National Weather Service Office in Sioux Falls leads the country in the percentage of time with active flood warnings.
Todd Heitkamp is the Meteorologist in Charge in Sioux Falls…

There were flood warnings sixty seven percent of the year, compared to forty four percent in much of Iowa, and eleven percent in central and northeast South Dakota. Heitkamp says there have been more notable rain events..

Heitkamp says it looks like a record breaking year in much of their service area….

Heitkamp says Sioux Falls has received over twenty inches more rain this year then has been recorded in Aberdeen.