SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Just released 30 and 90 day weather forecasts indicate more snow and rain this spring.
South Dakota state acting Climatologist Laura Edwards says most of West River is favored to be wetter than average through April.
Edwards says northeast South Dakota is also forecast to have a wetter than average spring through April and she says that may continue into May as well.
Edwards says while southern South Dakota is fifty-fifty on precipitation, soil moisture is good.
She says the southeast part of the state has equal chances of being wetter, dryer or near average. She's not worried about that because of the amount of rain and snow that has fallen on the southeast through the fall and winter.
Edwards says La Nina is fading and it looks like winter will hold on.
She says histrorically that's meant colder than average temperatures in February and into March.
She says there's no consensus yet on another El Nino later this year.
