Although Milwaukee's weekend storm was a rarity, climate change is fueling more intense rain events in Wisconsin.

On average, Wisconsin has become almost 20% wetter since 1950, and had its wettest decade on record in the 2010s.

Milwaukee has only seen 11 days of rainfall over four inches since record-keeping began in the 1870s. Seven of those days have happened in the last 30 years.

As Milwaukee-area residents pick up from the weekend's deluge, there's a common refrain: We've never seen anything like this before.

While this storm may have been rare, intense rainfall events already have grown more common in Wisconsin and elsewhere.

The reason has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with science. Human activities , like burning fossil fuels, are changing the climate.

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