PIERRE, (KCCR) — There is not much change this week in the U-S Drought Monitor for South Dakota, but the change that is there is positive. Areas of no drought in the state grew four-percent this week to 71-percent drought free. Abnormally dry areas have decreased to 28-percent with moderate drought at 14-percent and severe drought at four-percent. Hughes, Stanley, Sully, Potter, Dewey, Ziebach, Haakon, Jackson and Jones County are all 100-percent in no drought. Counties with some level of abnormally dry conditions are Mellette, Tripp, Lyman, Hand, Hyde, Brule and Buffalo Counties. Brule is the only county with moderate drought in the southeast corner. Severe drought in northeast South Dakota has been reduced to only portions of Roberts and Grant Counties after severe storms last week. Severe drought in southeast South Dakota remains largely unchanged extending from Brookings to the Parker and Beresford areas.
