According to Steve Vavrus, the State Climatologist and a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research, this December was Wisconsin’s warmest on record. In Madison, the capital city’s biggest lakes didn’t freeze until January 15th, making it one of the five latest ice-overs on Lake Mendota in 170 years of record-keeping.
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