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08 January 2008

Milwaukee is the new Portland: Wisconsin weather →[More:]In the past week the temperature here has swung from 0 to 60. Right now it's raining, following vicious tornadoes and thunderstorms.

I wonder if Wisconsin's global warming future is a wilder version of Portland. Essentially, the area doesn't have something like the ocean to keep huge temperature swings in check, but the temps will swing more often between 20 and 50 than 30 and -10.

post by: drezdn at: 14:26 | 12 comments

Same down here in Chicago. The whole Midwest's weather is a bit bizarre right now, actually.

posted by me3dia 08 January | 14:52

and former Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist works at the Congress of New Urbanism, whose principles have been widely practiced in Portland for decades... HMMMMM....

posted by desjardins 08 January | 15:07

we've had a strange weather swing here in western north carolina as well. temps down in the low teens last week, complete with snow, ice and school closings galore. right now it's almost 70.

if it keeps up like this, i guess that means another year without realizing my dream of building an anatomically-correct snowman.

posted by syntax 08 January | 15:17

Well, the good news is that your streets are finally plowed.

posted by pokermonk 08 January | 15:33

It was 75 when I left the house at 730 this morning here in the ATX. After my morning coffee, I went off to the office where I was in a downpour that was pretty downpoury. Then it was nice when I got to my office.

It supposed to get down to 41 tonight and all blustery. I was really digging the past few days. However cold weather only happens once every few days and it gets warm again. I can't see how some of you people endure months of the cold.

posted by birdherder 08 January | 16:58

The cold is a force that gives us meaning.

The nice thing for introverts like myself is that in the winter months, it's easy for me to cocoon myself in and start working my ass off on projects.

posted by drezdn 08 January | 17:36

Well shit, maybe I should just go back there. I wonder if my old house is available...

posted by pieisexactlythree 08 January | 18:18

huh, I went to Washington Elementary, right around the corner, c. 1985.

posted by desjardins 08 January | 18:31

Nice! I was 8 in 1985.

posted by pieisexactlythree 08 January | 18:58

And I lived just off Washington Street (the stallis one though), but went to Madison for kindergarten. (and have had secretaries named both Lincoln and Kennedy*)

*I do not actually have a secretary :C

posted by drezdn 08 January | 19:39

huh, my parents live less than a mile from your old digs, drezdn. small world, etc.

posted by desjardins 08 January | 21:03

Well, same thing here in Janesville, of course. I don't think by itself this is some harbinger of all winters to come, except that in 20 years time they have become shorter, milder and more Kentucky-like.

(1990 USDA map: Jvl on edge between 4b/5a. 2006 Arbor Fdn map: Right in the middle of 5. So we're officially getting weather like Champaign-Urbana used to.)

posted by stilicho 09 January | 02:54

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