(Radio Iowa) – February ended up being much wetter than normal — though state climatologist Justin Glisan says we had a “snow drought,” where there was more rainfall than snowfall. February averaged a little over two inches preliminarily of precipitation, which is almost an inch above average. Glisen says the month will end up in the top 20 wettest February’s on record, after we saw the sixth driest February last year.

A warmer than average overall temperature could be part of the reason for the below average snow — as the state averaged 25-point-nine degrees — about one-point-eight degrees above average.