SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Monday’s weather not only brought some interesting skies, but very strong wind gusts. Meteorologist Scot Mundt explains what happened.
All is calm for Tuesday, but with the colder air in place Monday and some afternoon heating, scattered showers and storms developed and brought wind gusts over 50 mph to some in KELOLAND.
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This is what it looked like in Pierre as Kimberly Borge caught all kinds of weather.She described it as “If it was graupel, it was the fluffiest graupel I’ve ever seen. If it was snow, it was the hardest snow I’ve ever seen. Mother Nature came in with a cold blast accompanied by….tiny snowballs???”
Here’s a look at Monday’s setup.
With the cold temperatures above the surface Monday, any daytime heating we got from the sun helped lift the air. As a result, clouds thickened and scattered showers and storms developed.
As the rain fell, some of it evaporated. That causes the air to cool and sink. That cool air rushes to the ground and we get strong wind gusts that were connected to a couple of the showers and storms from Monday.
This was a result of the strong winds, a semi was on its side on Interstate 29 south of Sioux Falls. Just before the semi went to its side, a wind gust of 57 mph was recorded at Beresford, about 15 miles south of where the truck was on its side.
While we’ll have another dry day Wednesday, scattered strong to severe storms will be possible on Thursday in southeast KELOLAND.
For KELOLAND weather, I’m Meteorologist Scot Mundt.
