Thursday, December 10, 2015

The Phenomenon That is Me Being Absent from Wisconsin

It appears, from all the comments my Wisconsin Facebook friends are making, that Wisconsin is having an unbelievably mild December.  This should really surprise no one since I am no longer there.  

If you think I'm joking you need to look at the research I have done on this subject.  

First of all...Wisconsin has had ONE day this year below 30* and that was 29* on November 22. Last year at this time we already had 22 days below 30*!  

To further prove my point I took a sample week (December 1 - December 8) from the years 1999 to present.  

The years 1999-2004  and 2015 we were living in Florida

The years 2005-2014 we were living in Wisconsin.

Here are the average temps for that week 

While we lived in Florida

1999 - 45*
2000 - 20* (Zack and I were actually visiting Wisconsin this week)
2001 - 49*
2002 - 31*
2003 - 41*
2004 - 40*

Then we moved to Wisconsin

2005 - 19*
2006 - 24*
2007 - 24*
2008 - 26*
2009 - 32*
2010 - 26*
2011 - 34*
2012 - 40* 
2013 - 27*
2014 - 28*

Then we moved back to Florida

2015 - 42*

Since the overall average for that week is 33* that means 

While we lived in Florida there were:

5 above average weeks (and almost 10* above average most of them)
2 below average weeks (and one of those two we were in Wisconsin for so that doesn't even count)


While we lived in Wisconsin there were: 

2 above average weeks (one just barely at 34*)
8 below average weeks


Seriously, I don't get it.  







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