This Day in History: On May eighth, 1888: The Rapid City Weather Service was established and commenced taking day by day climate observations.
Good morning everybody, WOW! What a day yesterday. I actually imply this once I say this assertion; you can actually cut up the state on the river, and have 2 completely different climate tales.
Here are the storm reviews from yesterday. West River had all of the wind, however not a lot precipitation. East river nevertheless, had some hail, and three reported funnel clouds.
As a matter of truth, listed here are the three reviews. There have been 2 in Brown county, and 1 in Spink County.
In phrases of hail, Quarter sized hail was reported in Gettysburg, in addition to Tolstoy.
In regards to the wind gust from yesterday, everybody within the NC1 Viewing Area reported gusts.
The massive winner was Buffalo, WY at 76 MPH. Rapid City and Pine Ridge reported 47 MPH, everybody else excluding Faith, noticed gusts within the 30s & 40s.
TODAY: Precip probabilities decide up within the afternoon hours, in any other case we are going to keep Partly to Mostly Cloudy. Just hold the raingear with you simply in case you get below a bathe or 2.
In phrases of temperature, MUCH cooler at the moment as in comparison with yesterday. We had a excessive of 84 in Rapid City, and at the moment we’ll drop to the higher 60s with low 60s in North Central Wyoming and 70s from Faith all the way down to Pine Ridge.
Enjoy your Sunday!
-E.D.