Changing climate poses a challenge for farmers in southeast Wisconsin
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There are a lot of new normals lately. We re adding one more to the list, but this one doesn t have to do with masks, zooms meetings, or social distancing. This is about a new
climate normal.
In the weather department, when we talk about normal, or average, we are making a comparison. How does today s weather compare to average, or where we might expect to be for a certain time of year?
Those normals, or averages, are based on 30 years of data. The last data set was from 1981-2010. The updated data set, recently released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, looks at 1991-2020.