Iowa’s weather during January featured several extremes. State climatologist Harry Hillaker says there were radical shifts in temperature, for starters, and despite the heavy snow that blanketed much of the state over the weekend, Iowa ended up lacking for precipitation during the month.

Most of Iowa got walloped by a monster winter storm over the weekend that dumped up to 14-inches of snow on some areas of the state. Still, February 1st was Sunday, so the statewide average for precipitation during January was only about half-an-inch, which is about half the norm for the month.

February is starting off much colder than normal and, for most of the state, much snowier than usual, too. Hillakers says temperatures will likely stay below freezing this week and he says there will only be a little melting of the mounds of snow.