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South Dakota waiting for northern snow pack to melt

The snow pack has melted and receded in most of South Dakota but the northern part is waiting on the snow pack to melt away.

Anthony Bly, a soil field specialist with SDSU Extension, tells Brownfield he’s seen what’s coming, “I was able to fly from Brookings to Pierre last Thursday and you could see to the north, north Redfield and the Aberdeen area, there was quite a bit of snow pack left here so there’s going to be water coming down the ‘Jim’ River for quite a while.”

And there remains a high level of flooding in South Dakota’s flood plains, “Those fields along those rivers; the Big Sioux, the James, the Vermillion… it’s going to be a while before those fields dry out.”

Bly says weather forecasts have changed from gloomy to drier over the next three weeks for South Dakota and he’s heard soil sampling has begun in southern South Dakota.