If you love the weather were having this June, you're gonna love what is on tap for this July too.

El Nino looks like it will increase its strength this summer, the result will be cooler and wetter conditions throughout South Dakota during the month of July. That from Laura Edwards, SDSU Extension Climate Field Specialist, referencing the latest climate outlook from National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center.

If you're the type of person that looks forward to a nice sultry, sticky, hot, July, you will more than likely be a little disappointed with what Mother Nature has to offer next month. Get ready for cooler than median temperatures during the month ahead.

During the typical July, the median temps in South Dakota range from the low 80s in the northeast, to upper 80s across most of the south and west for highs. With low temps anywhere from the upper 50s in the northwest to lower 60s in the southeast.

The cooler temperature outlook is also a response to the very wet soils and ample rainfall that has fallen in this region over the last several weeks. When that happens it tends to reduce the high temperatures in the summer season, according to Edwards.

In addition to the cooler temps, most of the Rocky Mountain region and central states should be in store for above median precipitation in July.

Forecast models indicate a strong consensus it will continue to be a wet July according to Dennis Todey, SDSU Extension Climate Specialist and South Dakota State Climatologist.

Todey added that a recent update on the El Nino conditions, from NOAA Climate Prediction Center, show a 90  percent chance the cooler and wetter conditions will continue through the fall season and will likely to continue or intensify into the winter.

The good news from all this wet weather we've been experiencing lately, the drought conditions South Dakota experienced in the early months of 2015 have all but been eliminated given our recent wet and cool pattern over the last six weeks.

The drought outlook through September indicates continued improvement or removal of the remaining drought affected areas in South Dakota, given the likelihood of wetter and cooler conditions for the remainder of the growing season.

Source: Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan

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