Wisconsin’s warming winters: climate impact, ecosystems and communities in 2025 – WUWM

WisConsin Winters warms up. The tendency is an element of climate change we see and feel.

Next week, Wuwm broadcasts a series of stories exploring some of the aspects of what scientists study, what ecosystems they are experiencing and what we navigate as humans. Here is a visualization:

How do trees hold on to

We will receive the prospects of Apple Orchard’s manager outside Madison, visit the Milwauki team, learn about the Sherman Park Neighborhood Initiative, and visit the Walwart County, where a Dubova Gora and Savannah project is being held.

Our warming winters add to the face of stress.

“In the fall, when things start to cool, they acquire drowsiness, to the right and hit their peak pouring when it becomes the most cold, and they can handle it. If then you have a stretch of soft time, they will” will Start losing drowsiness a big problem, says Liz Griffith, Orchard Door Creek.

How is wildlife affected?

We meet two UW-Madison researchers who focus on snow-dependent species that rely on snow cover, such as snowfall. We visit Epherus pond in the Wowsha County, of which vulnerable species, such as frogs and salamanders, depends on the Nature Reserve, where the warming of winters causes efforts to recover and the habitats they support.

“Star-Nosy moles and other small mammals who are in this praria-these species are really affected by the bad winter conditions we have at the moment without snow on the ground because this snow is an insulating layer. So the moles that feed Vesses and seeds can be fed throughout the winter under the snow and they are protected by predators.

Taking the pulse of white fish on Lake Michigan

We meet with a biologist at DNR and a specialist in the Fisheries of Sea Grates in Wisconsin. Along the way, we hear prospects from a DOOR County County Commercial Fisherman, as well as a fishing guide. His business depends on the healthy population of white fish and safe ice to reach them.

“People can see me expel my UTV today and there are spots where I can be 10 feet from the open water. Well, if it is transferred and you do not realize, and they see me around it and they just start driving and dropping. Miles is still this year, says the ice fishing management of Zack Burgess County.

Hibernation

Last winter, it was Wisconsin’s highest, as people began to follow in 1895. Wisconsin state climateologist Steve Vavrus says winter temperatures are in a tendency to be unmistakably upwards. “And we see that as an unmistakable tendency of a decline in the ice sheet – the amount of ice cover, the days with ice cover, the thickness of the ice – all shrink and this is in accordance with the overall warming climate,” says Vavrus.

WXPR News Director Katie Torresen shares her point of view of winter recreation from his point of view at Rhinelander and we visit the ice boat regat on Lake Winnebago.

Maggie McGari was the most youth enthusiast in the crowd. The freshman of the high school in Minneapolis described the thrill of the riding of the ice.

“I think you are just 6 inches of ice that goes 40, 50 miles per hour. It feels much faster, especially when you don’t have a windshield like in a car. There is so much wind and there is so much speed that you your kind, oh God.

After the water

Our warming winters made a predictable freezing, snowfall and thawing the past. We meet people who live and work in the Oconomowoc catchment area – from farmers to lake associations and water supply, which are united to manage rainwater and promote water health within the catchment area they share. MMSD Jerome Flogel says that when it comes to Milwaukee’s highly axial environment, management has become a year -round problem.

“We need to be ready to manage rainwater for almost 12 months outside the year, because we can get an event, as we have seen in the latter, say, a month where we have these swings in the temperature and it reaches 50 degrees and we have a centimeter of rain. And we have almost zero permeability and everything will be outflow, “says Flogel.

Focus on energy

As part of Thin ice 2025 The Wuwm Chuck Quirmbach series will share timely reports on the state of Federal EV charging stations and their future under the Trump administration. He will also report to the tractor and develop on plans to meet the needs of the power of high -tech industries.