The Wisconsin State Climatology Office is located within the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The state climatologist collects data and information for climate monitoring, provides climate information to residents of Wisconsin, demonstrates the value of climate information in the decision making process to the user community, and conducts applied climate research. This office is a partner with Midwestern Regional Climate Center in providing climate services to the public. If you would like assistance finding the climate data you want, visit our Guide to Wisconsin Weather and Climate Data.

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Record Rains and Flooding in Southern Wisconsin

Record setting rain at the end of the first week of June 2008 across southern Wisconsin caused major flood problems.   See precipitation maps from the Milwaukee/Sullivan National Weather Service Office and our Climate Watch for additional information concerning the flooding across Southern Wisconsin.

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Passing of a true Wisconsin climatologist
We are very sad to report that Emeritus Professor Reid Bryson passed away at his home in Madison on  Wednesday, 11 June 2008.  

Courtesy, the Archaeoclimatology Team, Center for Climatic Research

Reid was not only interested in Wisconsin's weather and climate, but he will be remembered as founder of the University of Wisconsin's Department of Meteorology in 1948, founder of the Center for Climate Research and its endowed Climate, People, and Environment Program, and founder of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. His fertile mind gave birth to a wide range of studies and opinions on the earth's climate and it peoples. His legacy survives in  University of Wisconsin research and teaching activities extending  to other disciplines.

He is survived by his wife Frannie, and children Ann, Bill,  Bob and Tom.