PIERRE, (KCCR) — The severe lack of rain across South Dakota is leading to more severe and even extreme levels of drought. According to the latest U-S Drought Monitor for the state, the last remaining areas considers abnormally dry have been eliminated at replaced with moderate drought. Those areas include the central Missouri River valley. In Hughes County, moderate drought increased 90-percent to 100-percent from last week while Stanley County saw moderate drought go from 51-percent last week to 100 this week. Sully County also went to full moderate drought this week from 96-percent last week. Hand and Hyde County also lost their abnormally dry areas last week. Hand County saw a 14-percent increase in moderate drought with Hyde increasing 56-percent. Statewide, moderate drought went to 100-percent with severe drought declining by one-percent. Extreme drought is unchanged at just over 10-percent of South Dakota.
