Recent rain eliminates dought conditions in some South Dakota counties– at least temporarily

Plentiful rain over the past week has taken parts of South Dakota out of drought conditions.

The U.S. Drought Monitor, updated weekly, shows parts of 14 counties are no longer in drought conditions. Those counties are Corson, Campbell, Perkins, Meade, McPherson, Ziebach, Faulk, Hyde, Sully, Hughes, Lyman, Tripp, Davison and Hanson.

Only small portions of the state are in D-3, or extreme drought conditions. They’re in the southwest corner of the state, in Fall River and Oglala Lakota counties.