• BROOKINGS, S.D. -This was a cold wet spring for most South Dakotan's says Dennis Todey, SDSU Extension Climatologist.
• "Everyone perceived this spring as being cold and wet, which was true. But the reality varied a little depending on your location in the state," Todey said.
• May Review
Temperatures for May, while cooler than average were not historically cool except for at two stations in eastern South Dakota, Flandreau and Clear Lake; which showed May 2013 to be the eighth and eleventh coolest in the last 100 years.
• "Precipitation was much of a different story because of several heavier rainfall events over most of the state," Todey said.
• He indicated that 17 stations with longer term records had their top 10 wettest May's on record; topping these were Bison and Roscoe recording their fifth wettest spring, McIntosh and Ludlow as fourth wettest, Huron and Onida, as third wettest, Pollock and Canton second wettest and Lemmon, having the wettest spring on record. In contrast two station in the southwest had top 10 driest May's.
• "The cooler and wetter conditions have aided the large changes in drought level across the state," Todey said. "In the last four to six weeks the monitor was reduced to no drought status over most of the east and less severe drought in the west."
• Spring Review
• The main issue for spring as a whole (March through May) was temperature,

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