Talk about a weather swing: Folks in the Black Hills area of South Dakota were in shorts and sandals last Monday, enjoying temps in the 80s. By Thursday, local records for both cold and snow were broken as a cold front swept in from the north.
Temps had dropped into the 20s and several inches of snow covered the hills as well as Rapid City and other lower elevations.
Climate skeptics might pounce on the September snow as a rebuttal to global warming, but the early snow that hit parts of South Dakota and other states Thursday and Friday, while uncommon, is not unheard of .... http://www.nbcnews.com
