PIERRE, (KCCR) — Recent rains across the state and central South Dakota are finally slowing drought expansion. Across the High Plains while average temperatures were 10 to 12 degrees warmer, those regions also saw above average rainfall. Statewide, extreme, moderate and abnormally dry drought fell one-percent with severe drought falling two-percent and drought-free areas increasing one-percent. Across central South Dakota, Hughes County saw moderate drought fall nearly 90-percent to just under one-percent from 92-percent last week. Hughes County remains 100-percent abnormally dry. Moderate drought fell 43-percent in Stanley County to 26-percent. Hyde County saw moderate drought go from 68=percent to one-point-five percent. In Hand County, severe drought fell a half percent and moderate drought declined 64 percent. Lyman County saw severe drought shrink by 22-percent and moderate drought 19-percent. Moderate drought is down 30-percent in Jones County bringing back abnormally dry conditions to the northeast part of the county.
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