Eye on the storm: Todd Heitkamp marks 25 years with National Weather Service

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Todd Heitkamp has heard every old wives’ tale about the weather and gives little credence to predictions based on the thickness of the silk on the corn ears, the rings of an onion or even the “Old Farmer’s Almanac.” As a meteorologist, he puts his stock in the science of weather, even though it’s not always predictable.