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Milwaukee’s climate has been getting wetter over last 60 years

If your neighbors say it is raining more in Milwaukee now than in their youth, they are correct.

Milwaukee?s climate has been getting wetter over the last 60 years. Future generations here might be telling each other that the city is getting even more rain than today, with more intense storms, said Steve Vavrus, a senior scientist with the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.