Hey, it was January. What did you expect! The Bluffton-Pandora January 2011 average daily temperature was 21 degrees according to Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer. Our normal average January temperature is 23.7 degrees.

But that wasn't the big weather story for January 2011. The Bluffton-Pandora area recorded 16 inches of snow in the first month of the year. The January 2010 snowfall was 9.9 inches. The 60-year average January snowfall is 2.04 inches.

January's high temperature was 57 degrees on Jan. 1. The low was minus 3 on Jan. 22. The heaviest one-day snowfall was 5.1 inch on Jan. 11.