PIERRE, (KCCR) — There is more improvement this week in the U-S Drought Monitor for South Dakota. Areas of no drought are up five-percent to 73-percent of the state. Moderate drought has fallen from 10-percent to six-percent and abnormally dry areas have been reduced by four-percent to 26-percent of the state. An area of moderate drought in western Sully County was eliminated this week; dropping 27-percent to zero. Seventy-two percent of Sully County remains abnormally dry. Moderate drought was also removed from Hughes, Buffalo and Hyde Counties. Moderate drought in Lyman County declined 68-percent and 38-percent in Jones County. An area of moderate drought extends from southern Jones and Lyman County into much of Mellette, northern Tripp, southwest Brule and northern Gregory and Charles Max Counties. Moderate remains in Fall River and Custer Counties. Abnormally dry area extend from Fall River and Custer Counties to Douglas and Aurora Counties and north along the Missouri River to Potter County.
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