Warm Weather The Start Of Changes

Todd Heitkamp (center in yellow shirt)

Temperatures the rest of the week will heat up across the region, and it may be the beginning of a trend. Todd Heitkamp at the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls says this will be a hot, dry week…

[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/06/Todd-Heitkamp-626a.mp3|titles=Todd Heitkamp 626a]

Updated thirty and ninety day forecasts have been released, and Heitkamp says the patterns are in place…

[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/06/Todd-Heitkamp-626b.mp3|titles=Todd Heitkamp 626b]

Heitkamp says a summer blocking pattern has set up across much of the northern U.S…

[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/06/Todd-Heitkamp-626c.mp3|titles=Todd Heitkamp 626c]

He says it would take a strong Pacific storm moving in to break the block, and they don’t see that happening any time soon.