Noted: The study was conducted by the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Daniel Wright, an environmental engineering researcher at UW-Madison who works on climate issues, described Milwaukee as a “hotspot for thunderstorm activity.”
“If you look north or south or west of Milwaukee, there are far fewer thunderstorms than over the city itself. Then you have to start scratching your head and asking, ‘What’s going on here?’ ”