(Radio Iowa) – While snow was finally falling across the state late Tuesday evening into Wednesday, it won’t make up for what State Climatologist Justin Glisan says is a snow drought. Glisten says Iowa is anywhere from 14 to 22, inches below average for this season, and January was about six inches below average. But the weather pattern could see February beat the snowfall average. “We’re in a weak La Nina winter, which generally if you look back at snowfall behavior for weak La Ninas, we generally see anywhere from four to six inches of above average snowfall in winter,” he says.

Glistan says February has shown that pattern recently. “You know, looking at recent Februarys, we’ve actually seen slightly slightly more snowfall. We’ve had more arctic air outbreaks, we’ve had more snowfall events. So there is a potential to get more snowfall in February,” Glisan says.

He says March also has the potential to bring more snow and catch up some on the winter total.