Winter on Lake Mendota, Wisconsin

In Madison, Wisconsin, winter is milder than in years past.  Photograph Peter Essick

Researchers monitoring ice on Lake Mendota find that ice cover on the lake averages 40 fewer days now than it did 150 years ago. Says University of Wisconsin researcher John Magnuson, “Wisconsin is losing winter as we knew it.”

 

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