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Wisconsin 78 Degrees Warmer Than 1 Year Ago
What a difference a year makes! In 2019, Wisconsin was in a state of emergency, and January 2020 is one of the warmest ever.

Scott Anderson is a jack-of-all-trades journalist who came up through the ranks of photojournalism nearly 20 years ago. In his career, he's documented relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina, photographed three U.S. presidents, and photographed more high school sporting events than he can remember.
He's won a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism for his work documenting the parental generation gap and was honored at Patch for his work on the state's Opioid crisis.
Scott completed his undergraduate coursework at UW-Platteville and has a Master's Degree from UW-Madison in Journalism. He's a proud Wisconsinite who loves the outdoors. He loves his wife and two children.
You can reach him at scott.anderson@patch.com
What a difference a year makes! In 2019, Wisconsin was in a state of emergency, and January 2020 is one of the warmest ever.

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