Skip to main content

Brown Christmas likely for south-central Wisconsin

Based on the best and latest weather science, it appears that you will look out your window on Christmas morning and see mostly brown grass. Maybe. Jonathan Martin, professor and chairman of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the UW-Madison, said that everything from satellite data to computer models to numerical weather forecasts are telling us that, though snowless Christmases are rarer than skinny mall Santa Clauses, this coming holiday may indeed buck the trend.