With apologies to Bob Dylan, you don't have to be a weatherman to know that Western Wisconsin has again been hammered with storms since last summer's road-and-bridge-breaking onslaught.
But as I wrote at the time:
So are these so-called 100-year storm events, or more of less weekly Wisconsin happenings?
But as I wrote at the time:
Despite major floods, WI has zero interest in climate changeYet across the state, Southern Wisconsin keeps getting soaked as both the days and nights heat up:
Thursday’s high in Madison was 87 at 4:01 p.m., 5 degrees above the normal high... Thursday’s low in Madison was 67 at 5:38 a.m., 6 degrees above the normal low...
For meteorological summer (June through August), Madison’s precipitation total rose to 11.4 inches, 4.09 inches above normal. The 2017 total rose to 27.06 inches, 7.92 inches above normal.
Millions in flood damage, millions of gallons of sewer overflows in Racine, Walworth, Kenosha counties
Well, don't ask any of those science-types.
Because the state for ideological reasons has officially stopped recognizing the obvious implications of climate change and publishing such information on public sites.
But note how many of these issues were dealt with by a February, 2010 report issued by the highly-respected, science-based, data-driven Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts, (WICCI) program.
Change in Annual Average Precipitation (inches) from 1950 to 2006
From 1950 to 2006, Wisconsin as a whole has become wetter, with an increase in annual precipitation of 3.1 inches. This observed increase in annual precipitation has primarily occurred in southern and western Wisconsin, while northern Wisconsin has experienced some drying.
From 1950 to 2006, Wisconsin as a whole has become wetter, with an increase in annual precipitation of 3.1 inches. This observed increase in annual precipitation has primarily occurred in southern and western Wisconsin, while northern Wisconsin has experienced some drying.
Yet Walker's "chamber of commerce mentality DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp has stepped away from the climate change initiative, according to the Lakeland Times newspaper last year:
...Stepp says the agency's partnership with WICCI has come to an end.
The agency was heavily involved in the 2011 assessment by WICCI that still serves as the group's benchmark, but Stepp says those days are long gone.
"That was a study that was done through a lot of different partners and the former DNR under the past administration was very involved in that," she said. "We are not involved in that anymore."