110 AWUS83 KFSD 271639 RWSSD SDZ001>074-280200- SOUTH DAKOTA WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1139 AM CDT THU MAR 27 2014 LOW PRESSURE MOVING EASTWARD NEAR THE KANSAS AND NEBRASKA BORDER OVERNIGHT AND THIS MORNING BROUGHT PLENTY OF CLOUDS AND MOISTURE TO THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS REGIONS. IN SOUTH DAKOTA...THE TEMPERATURES WERE A LITTLE COOLER...SO THE PRECIPITATION WAS A MIXTURE OF RAIN...SNOW...AND A LITTLE FREEZING RAIN. FURTHER SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST...THERE WERE RAIN SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION IN SOUTH DAKOTA WAS SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM WINNER....TO HURON...TO WATERTOWN. AS THE MORNING PROGRESSED... MUCH OF THE REMAINING RAIN IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA WAS CHANGING TO SNOW. SOME OF THE SNOW WAS GETTING HEAVY AND SLUSHY BETWEEN IROQUOIS AND BROOKINGS. LOW TEMPERATURES ACROSS SOUTH DAKOTA THIS MORNING WERE MAINLY IN THE MID 20S TO MID 30S. ONE OF THE COLDEST TOWNS WAS BUFFALO...FALLING TO 20 DEGREES. FAITH AND MOBRIDGE WERE ALMOST AS CHILLY...BOTH WITH 25. YANKTON WAS ONE OF THE MILDEST SPOTS...HOLDING AT 45 DEGREES THROUGH SUNRISE. SIOUX FALLS WAS CLOSE BEHIND...WITH 42. AT 11 AM CDT / 10 AM MDT...A MOSTLY CLOUDY TO CLOUDY SKY CONTINUED OVER SOUTH DAKOTA...WITH RAIN AND SNOW OVER THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SOUTH DAKOTA. A BAND OF HEAVIER SNOWFALL WAS BETWEEN MADISON AND BROOKINGS...PUSHING EASTWARD. TEMPERATURES WERE FALLING THROUGH THE 20S AND 30S AT MOST LOCATIONS. EXTREMES ON THE HOUR RANGED FROM 23 DEGREES AT BUFFALO...TO 40 AT SIOUX FALLS. WINDS ACROSS SOUTH DAKOTA WERE BETWEEN NORTHWEST AND NORTHEAST AT 7 TO 25 MPH...WITH GUSTS OF 22 TO 38 MPH ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE STATE. $$