Wow! Talk About a Global Warming Winter Storm -- Closed the Entire West-East Interstate Highway In South Dakota

I'm sure it's happened before -- I just don't recall, and I certainly don't recall it happening in the spring -- that the South Dakota Department of Transportation closed almost the entire west-east South Dakota Interstate, I-90, from Rapid City to Sioux Falls -- almost 400 miles of highway closed. Incredible.

SkyView is reporting (note the time: earlier this afternoon, and conditions deteriorating):

South Dakota officials are closing Interstate 90 between Rapid City and Sioux Falls. That announcement came at about 5:45pm Tuesday. The Department of Transportation says that segment of the interstate will remain closed until conditions improve and crews are able to clear the roadway. DOT officials say road conditions are deteriorating as the storm intensifies.

In addition, going east from South Dakota into Minnesota, Austin, MN, to Rochester, MN, could get a foot of snow.

I remember these springtime winter storms growing up in Williston, decades before we heard about global warming. All this precipitation in the midwest should relieve some of the ocean-rising pressure on the Maldives (the islands that are at risk of being lost due to global warming). Maybe there's hope for the Maldives yet.