AWUS83 KFSD 081715 RWSSD SDZ001>074-090300- WEATHER SUMMARY FOR SOUTH DAKOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1115 AM CST SUN FEB 8 2009 HIGH PRESSURE MOVED SOUTHEAST ACROSS SOUTH DAKOTA OVERNIGHT BRINGING MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS. LOW LEVEL CLOUDS ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL DISSIPATED EARLY SATURDAY EVENING...AND SHORTLY BEFORE DAWN...HIGH LEVEL CLOUDINESS INCREASED OVER THE SOUTHWEST. OVERNIGHT LOW TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE UPPER TEENS AND LOWER 20S ACROSS THE SOUTH AND WEST...FROM 10 TO 15 DEGREES NORTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL...AND FROM 5 TO 10 DEGREES NORTHEAST AND NEAR BROOKINGS. AT 4 DEGREES...ABERDEEN AND WATERTOWN WERE THE COLDEST IN THE STATE. OVERNIGHT WINDS WERE MOSTLY LIGHT OR CALM BUT INCREASED FROM THE SOUTH AT 10 TO 20 MPH LATE NEAR PINE RIDGE AND FAITH. AT 11 AM CST SKIES WERE MOSTLY CLOUDY OVER THE SOUTHWEST...AND SUNNY OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE RUSHMORE STATE. TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE 20S NORTHEAST...THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 30S NORTHWEST THROUGH SOUTHEAST ...AND THE MIDDLE AND UPPER 30S SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL. EXTREMES WERE FROM 20 DEGREES AT WATERTOWN TO 43 DEGREES AT SPEARFISH. WINDS WERE SOUTHERLY ACROSS THE STATE AT 7 TO 14 MPH EXCEPT STRONGER...AROUND 20 MPH...AT RAPID CITY...FAITH AND PINE RIDGE. GUSTS NEAR 30 MPH WERE OCCURRING AT RAPID CITY.../28 MPH/ AND PINE RIDGE.../29 MPH/. THIS DATE IN 1899 WAS BRUTALLY COLD WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE 30S BELOW ZERO ACROSS EASTERN AND MUCH OF CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. LOW TEMPERATURES INCLUDE... 27 BELOW ZERO AT YANKTON 28 BELOW ZERO AT ALEXANDRIA AND TYNDALL 30 BELOW ZERO AT ACADEMY AND MITCHELL 31 BELOW ZERO AT ARMOUR 32 BELOW ZERO AT MILBANK 34 BELOW ZERO AT FLANDREAU...HURON...MIDLAND AND WENTWORTH 35 BELOW ZERO AT ABERDEEN...HIGHMORE...MELLETTE AND WATERTOWN 36 BELOW ZERO AT BROOKINGS AND KENNEBEC 37 BELOW ZERO AT IPSWICH 38 BELOW ZERO AT HOWARD...SIOUX FALLS AND WESSINGTON SPRINGS 40 BELOW ZERO AT FORESTBURG 42 BELOW ZERO AT GANN VALLEY HIGH TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL WERE ONLY 20 BELOW TO 25 BELOW ZERO. A TWO DAY SNOWSTORM BEGAN ON THIS DATE IN 1909 ACROSS SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. STORM TOTALS INCLUDE... 21 INCHES AT SIOUX FALLS 18 INCHES AT CENTERVILLE AND MENNO 12 INCHES AT DE SMET...FORESTBURG AND VERMILLION 10.8 INCHES AT HURON 10 INCHES AT MITCHELL 9.5 INCHES AT WENTWORTH 7.5 INCHES AT MARION 6.1 INCHES AT WHITE LAKE 6 INCHES AT BROOKINGS AND YANKTON $$ SHEEHAN