SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO)– It’s been a welcome sight to see rain in parts of KELOLAND over the last several days. Unfortunately, it’s been a case of the haves and the have-nots instead of something more widespread and beneficial.
Here’s a look at what we’ve seen over the last three days. Portions of southeastern KELOLAND, especially in northwestern Iowa, have seen a half-inch to over an inch of rain. Elsewhere, outside of a small blip northwest of Aberdeen, it’s been tough to get anything to come along.
It’s a different story, however, once we extend the time to the last seven days. Northeastern KELOLAND, all of a sudden, looks much better off than it did before. That’s because the storms that moved through on the 30th of July are doing a lot of the heavy lifting there. Areas near Huron, Miller, Chamberlain, northern Nebraska, and the Black Hills also have a bit more to show, but for similar reasons.
I mentioned before how there’s more work to be done in the moisture department. Here’s a look at July’s rain for our four example cities. Notice how, outside of one or two days, most of the month was rather dry. That includes a three-week stretch in Sioux Falls where they received no measurable rain. This is why we look at the big picture for drought conditions and not just whether the lawns are green or not.
We do try to at least get a little moisture in place on occasion through the weekend, but that soaking rain I mentioned earlier appears to not be in the cards for a while. We’ll just have to take what we can get…