For a week following the system the weather was unusually cold, and the thought was that this snow would last though February.  Little did we know that by the 13th it would all be gone as the midwest headed into a month long warm spell that had the area almost 7 degrees above normal for the month .. after having the first week of the month far below normal.

Silly neighbor kids were even seen going out in it.  Fortunately the hailstones never got larger than nickel-size.