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Old Jul 15, 2015 | 10:06 AM
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Rapid city got hit with 4 inches of hail last nite and they had to bring out the snow plows.
 
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Old Jul 15, 2015 | 10:15 AM
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Good!!!!! What are the odds of it happening again in 2 weeks?!?!?!
 
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Old Jul 15, 2015 | 10:24 AM
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Good!!!!! What are the odds of it happening again in 2 weeks?!?!?!
Pretty freaking good!
Hint; Don't set your tent in a dry creek bed.
 
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Old Jul 15, 2015 | 10:28 AM
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Good!!!!! What are the odds of it happening again in 2 weeks?!?!?!

A lot better than what you might think.
 
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Old Jul 15, 2015 | 10:59 AM
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I know every Sturgis special I've seen on TV, it seems to rain at every rally. Hail is just more rain, just the hard kind.
 
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Old Jul 15, 2015 | 11:19 AM
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I was just in Hill City a few weeks ago and it was a great weekend. Clear blue skies.
I asked the gals at the HD in Hill City about the weather as i noted a lot of creeks and fields had standing/running water w/ some over flow.
They told me they had a lot of rain in the Black Hills...more than usual.

Long range NWS has it pretty warm w/ thunderstorms and cool at night.

Sounds like an adventure in weather....

be safe
 
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Old Jul 15, 2015 | 11:21 AM
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Went once in 2001 and man was it hot! like 107 (I wanna say) everyday that week.

We slept under our popup camper it was so hot.
 
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Old Jul 15, 2015 | 11:29 AM
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Don't mind if it is hot or cold. Don't mind the thunderstorms that dump buckets of rain on my tent.

But I hate it when the hail stones are this big... The 2009 hail storm


 
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Depends where you are...It can rain/hail like a banshee in Deadwood, and nothing but 100 degree sunshine in Sturgis, not that far apart.

If you don't like the weather, just move five or ten miles.
 
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Old Jul 15, 2015 | 12:03 PM
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always prepare for the worst. in 2013 10 of us spent an hour in an outhouse in the middle of custer national park waiting out a hail storm. fun times.
 
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