More than 120 weather stations across the Midwest, including ones in Green Bay, Chilton, Beaver Dam, Fond du Lac, Milwaukee and Brillion had their rainiest year on record in 2018.

According to a news release from the Midwestern Regional Climate Center, as a whole, Wisconsin's annual precipitation total was one for the record books as well.

Most notably, Green Bay received a total of 39.21 inches of rain, which broke the record set in 1985 of 38.36 inches. Other cities that broke their annual precipitation records were:

Beaver Dam: 51.35 inches, with a previous record of: 44.48 inches.

Fond du Lac: 40.49 inches, previous: 39.12 inches.

Brillion: 40.39 inches, previous: 38.15 inches.

Chilton: 46.16 inches, previous: 43.95 inches.

Milwaukee (Mitchell International Airport): 45.08 inches, previous 44.44 inches.

Across southern and northeastern Wisconsin, extreme rainfall in August, September and October was common. On one occurrence in late August, more than 10 inches of rain fell just west of Madison, the climate center said.

Bryan Peake, a service climatologist with the climate center, said what made 2018 stand out over other years in terms of precipitation was the multiple occurrences of heavy rain in the same areas.

"Basically when you have a stationary boundary that sits over one area and you have that four times or five times in a year over the same exact areas, then that is going to lead to these types of years with really heavy rainfall," Peake said.

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Peake said in a lot of ways, 2018 was similar to 1993, when there was a lot of flooding throughout the state — especially the Mississippi Valley area. The great flood of 1993 was one of the more devastating weather events to occur in the United States, as it caused $15 billion in damage and killed 50 people in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin and Illinois, according to the National Weather Service

Last year, at least 14 people were killed as a result of the flooding in the Midwest and more than $17 million dollars in crop damage was reported throughout Iowa and Wisconsin. More than $340 million worth of property damage due to flooding and heavy rain was reported around the Midwest as record crests were recorded on a number of local rivers, according to the climate center.

Along with the immediate crop damage, Peake also said delayed harvests of corn and soybeans, something that doesn't show up on the economic sheet quite yet, also became an issue in the fall.

Peake said seeing this type of heavy rain in Wisconsin and around the region is fairly abnormal, but also something people should always be prepared for.

"The normal amount in most cases around Wisconsin is maybe 35 to 36 inches a year," he said. "When you are seeing amounts that are in the 43 to 46 range like we saw (in 2018), obviously that is certainly something that begins to stand out."

As Peake looks ahead, he believes heavy rain events like we saw in 2018 could become more common with continued changes to our climate and weather patterns.

"Extreme weather events seem to be happening quite often and are something that we are going to have to worry about in the future," he said. "Especially if it is coming in really heavy amounts, that's going to put a lot of stress on cities, municipalities, farmers and the economy in the Midwest."