PIERRE, (KCCR) — Too much water has taken over the news in South Dakota of late in the southeast, but in the western part of the state dry conditions are starting to take hold. South Dakota is still largely drought-free. Nearly 71-percent of South Dakota is considered having no drought, but areas of abnormally dry and even moderate drought are in place in the central and western parts of the state. Abnormally dry areas make up 29-percent with moderate drought at just under four-percent. Sully County is now 66-percent in abnormally dry with Potter County at 78-percent. Northern and central Dewey County is abnormally dry making up 38-percent of that county. Ziebach County is 17-percent abnormally dry, Western South Dakota is the driest with an area of abnormally dry conditions in Perkins, Meade, Pennington, Custer, Fall River, Butte and Harding Counties. Moderate drought is being seen in Harding at 60-percent; Meade County at eight-percent; Pennington at 12-percent; Custer at four-percent and Lawrence County at 92-percent moderate drought.
