Thursday, March 19, 2015

Geography 321 Chapter 1: Introduction of Madison, Wisconsin

(Wisconsin state capital, http://taggmagazine.com/lifestyle/travel/expanding-summer-horizons/)

Madison is the capital of the State of Wisconsin and home to the University of Wisconsin. Madison locates on enter of Dane County that places at south of Wisconsin. Census 2010 measured 233,209 peoples lived in city of Madison.

Madison has a humid continental climate;
cold winter and hot summer with high humidity level. although Madison has significant precipitation during summer, it still get moderate to occasionally heavy snowfall on winter.

Madison locates between two lakes; Lake Mendota at north of Madison and Lake Monona at south. University of Wisconsin–Madison is famous campus locates south coastal of Lake Mendota. UW–Madison was ranked 70 among national universities by Forbes (Cal State Northridge ranked 441). My father was studied Engineering at this UW–Madison during late 70s to late 80s. I and my brother were born at that time.


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