Do you really want to know how cold it was in January? If so, open the attachment at the bottom of this story. It's worth one thousand words.

In a nutshell, January's normal average temperature is 25.4 degrees. Not this year: it was 17.6 degrees.

It gets worse. January's normal average precipitation is 2.26 inches. Not this year: 2.07 inches plus 23.6 inches of snow. That's above knees of this writer. The most snow was recorded on Jan. 5 with 7.5 inches.

Seven days in January experienced a low temperature of minus zero. It's gets worse: The final 18 days of January's daily low was below freezing.

(Information provide by Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer)