If not for a mild warmup towards the end of the month, January very well may have ended up a top-five all-time cold month.

Ed Shimon at the National Weather Service in Lincoln indicates some warm days in the final week of January helped normalize what was a very cold and rather snowy month.

Thanks to those snow events, they did help alleviate some drought conditions that had set up in December. Shimon indicates most of Illinois is in a good spot from a moisture standpoint right now.

Shimon anticipates February being very cold to close out the month with some very cold days coming up here this week. Get more on all things local weather and data at weather.gov/lincoln.