South Dakota's First February Tornado On Record Was One Week After Arctic Cold Outbreak
It's one of the weirdest things we've seen in 2025's weather, so far. A winter tornado in one of America's coldest states.
A Recent Plains Tornado Was Rated EFU. You Read That Right – Here's What It Means
A prime example happened Feb. 24 in South Dakota, when a brief tornado documented by a storm chaser spun up over an open ...
Ask the Meteorologist: Was our recent stretch of cold, snow due to the "polar vortex?"
Month-to-date temperature analysis shows that February 2025 has been the coldest in the U.S. has seen in 15 years. In 2010, the temperature anomaly was 4.1° below average. Currently, February's ...
Atmospheric River Map Shows Every Weather Warning as Storm Moves East
In a forecast, the NWS warned of "heavy rain, high elevation mountain snow and strong winds" hitting the Northwestern U.S.
The rare conditions that led to a surprise tornado in South Dakota
The forecast on Monday hardly featured a chance of thunderstorms in South Dakota. So when a tornado touched down in Watertown ...
Earliest tornado in South Dakota history
Typically when a person thinks of February in either of the Dakotas, they don’t think of tornadoes. But that happened Monday ...
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South Dakota lawmakers seek to slow CO2 pipelines
The bills don’t name Summit Carbon Solutions, but they’re a response to the Iowa company’s proposed $9 billion, five-state ...
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Greenpeace faces a $300 million lawsuit after Dakota Access Pipeline protests
The company behind the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline is suing Greenpeace for at least $300 million for damages the oil ...
Three tropical cyclones are swirling in the South Pacific
Three tropical cyclones are spinning in the South Pacific, an occurrence that scientists say is unusual. Tropical cyclones ...
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H5N1 detected in South Dakota cats, here’s what you need to know about the spread of avian flu
Twenty cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI or H5N1, also known colloquially as bird flu) have been confirmed in South Dakota since November. Most of the infected ...
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Ready to spring forward? Here's when daylight saving time starts this year in South Dakota
There was a referendum to get rid of daylight saving time on the November 1968 ballot in South Dakota. Here's what to know ...
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Should you expect a warm spring 2025? Maps show NOAA's weather outlook
The outlook predicts warmer temperatures throughout the South and East Coast and colder temperatures in the Northwest. NOAA predicts a drier spring for the Southwest and wetter season for the ...