Iowa’s weather during the first month of 2018 featured a lot of extremes. State Climatologist Harry Hillaker says the statewide average temperature of 18.9 degrees was just slightly (1/2-degree) colder than normal for a January in Iowa, but it was bitterly cold over the first half of the month and unseasonably warm over the second half.

It was a slightly wetter than normal January with a statewide average precipitation total of 1.03 inches.

The statewide average for snowfall over the month was 4.4 inches – 3.3 inches less than usual for a January in Iowa.