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Do you really want to know how cold it was in January?; or, here's why your pipes froze so often

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)

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