From the NWS in Indianapolis...
The Weather Takes A Wild And Woolly Ride In January 2008A saying in Indiana is "If you don’t like the weather...wait 10 minutes and it will change." was never truer than in January 2008. On the 29th...one minute the temperature was 54 degrees and raining and less than two hours later it was 27 degrees and snowing...with severe weather and a small tornado occurring in this short time span.
Temperature swings were frequent during January. The first three days of the New Year averaged the lowest at Indianapolis since January 1977. By the 7th the average temperature of 65 was the highest ever recorded for Indianapolis. Just as Indianapolis residents were thinking spring had arrived during that 10 day early January warm spell...winter weather abruptly returned on the 14th. Winter weather conditions through the 26th almost entirely offset the record warmth of the 6th and 7th.
Warm temperatures surged in on the 28th and 29th ahead of a very strong cold front. A squall line formed late in the day on the 29th bringing severe weather and winds over 100 mph in small portions of the Indianapolis area. Winter weather quickly returned after the frontal passage.
When all the extreme weather was totaled and averaged out... Indianapolis had a monthly average temperature of 28.7 degrees...2.2 degrees above normal. The warmest January on record was 1880 with an average temperature of 45 degrees. The coldest was 1977 at 10.2 degrees.
Most of the rainfall during January occurred on the 8th when 1.41 inches fell. Daily melted precipitation on the remaining days of January was less than two tenths of an inch. The monthly total melted precipitation was near normal at 2.14 inches...just 0.34 inches below normal. The driest January on record was 1944 with only 0.21 inches of precipitation. The wettest was only 6 years later...1950...with 12.69 inches of precipitation.
Snowfall for January was also on the light side. Snow fell on 16 days during January. The most snow fell on the 22nd with only 1.1 inches. The monthly snowfall total of 4.8 inches was 4.5 inches below normal.
The strongest wind measured at the airport was 58 mph during the evening of the 29th.
Thunder was heard on one day during January.
Total sunshine during January was 47 per cent of possible.
During the month new record highs were set on the 6th at 63 degrees and 7th at 68 degrees and a new high minimum was set on the 7th at 61 degrees. A new daily rainfall record was set on the 8th with 1.41 inches. There were no low temperature records set during January.
I took photos of last nights lunar eclipse using my digital camera and created this animated gif of the eclipse. Click on the photo and you'll see the eclipse from beginning to end. 
A total lunar eclipse is set to occurr tonight. Here's some information from NASA's Eclipse website.
Today was just your ordinary winter day with cloudy skies, a few peaks of warm sunshine, and snow showers. However, at 4:15 this afternoon all of that changed. I got home at 4:00 and was going through my messages when I turned to look out the window. Wow! The wind had picked up and the snow was coming down hard. It looked awesome out. The wind was whipping the snow around and in just the two minutes since I had looked out the window, the ground was completely snow covered. The temperature was dropping too. Within twenty minutes though, the snow had ended and the sun had come back out. I have to say, this was the most exciting winter weather so far this season.
I've got to stop listening the the weather forecasts. I was expecting a very wet day with the potential for some flooding. We certainly didn't get that though. Instead, we got a whopping 0.23" of rain. I guess some areas to the north and northwest received more, but it certainly didn't turn out to be the type of storm I was expecting. The winds on the other hand, did develop like predicted. The top wind gust here at home reached 39mph at 3:40pm, but stronger winds hit other areas. Here are some top windspeeds from the NWS in Indianapolis: 
Once again, Mother Nature has decided to brush Indiana with only a slight coat of winter rather than slather it on like winters past. Early forecasts for this storm were predicting 6-10 inches of snow in our area. However, as the storm approached less moisture was making its way northward and therefore less precipitation fell. The precipitation that did fall, fell as freezing rain mostly. Overnight, about one-half inch of snow fell and then the freezing rain took over. It was enough to cause travel headaches and close school, but it wasn't the beautiful blanket of snow that we were expecting.
Bust! That's all I can say for most forecasts across the area. The low pressure system decided to take a more westerly route across the area which pumped in a lot more warm air than was anticipated. The snow forecast amounts were pushed west as a result. Indianapolis was expecting about 6 inches of snow and received less than an inch. Lafayette was expecting nearly a foot of snow and received only 3.5 inches. Areas in western Illiniois however, received much more snow than was originally forecast. This just goes to show that you can't predict Mother Nature with much certainty at all.