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STURGIS, S.D. – Overcast skies in South Dakota are not due to clouds but smoke. Almost 90 wildfires are burning in Western Canada, sending a plume of smoke high into the atmosphere south into the United States. According to Scott Doering, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Aberdeen, the smoke and smell were […]
RAPID CITY, SD – With drought conditions only appearing to expand across much of the Interior West, fire season is off to an early start nationwide. Tessa Jaeger, public information officer for the Rapid City Fire Department (RCFD), says local firefighters are already contributing. “There are fires all over the nation,” said Jaeger. “We have […]
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — There’s an old weather adage that’s been passed over cups of coffee and glasses of beer for nearly a century: “It’s not a drought ’til it breaks your heart.” Today, the hearts of thousands of Montanans have broken across the bare back of one of one of the worst droughts […]