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Extreme Heat and Excessive Rainfall This Week

A significant heat wave continues for the Rockies, Northern Plains, and Great Lakes into the Mid-Atlantic, peaking in intensity through midweek and lingering across parts of the Northern Plains and Midwest until this weekend. Excessive rainfall my bring life-threatening and locally catastrophic flash and urban flooding across portions of southwestern Texas through early Friday. Read More >

Milwaukee experienced at or above normal mean monthly temperatures every month in 2012, except for October and September.  Similarly, Madison experienced at or above normal mean monthly temperatures every month in 2012, except October and September.  

As such, the 2012 mean average temperature in Madison was the warmest on record, and in Milwaukee tied for the warmest on record.  This was attributed to a Top 5 warmest 2011-2012 winter, the warmest spring 2012 on record, a top 3 warmest summer in 2012, and a near normal autumn.

 

Madison Top 5 Warmest Mean
Average T
Milwaukee Top 5 Warmest Mean
Average T
Rank Value (F) Year
1 51.3 2012
2 51.0 1931
T3 49.9 1998
  49.9 1878
5 49.6 1921
Rank Value (F) Year
T1 51.9 2012
  51.9 1931
3 50.9 1998
4 50.8 1921
5 50.4 2010

ET/Wood
National Weather Service Milwaukee/Sullivan, WI