Is it really January?

We have to remind ourselves that it's really January here in SW Iowa. We have had temperatures in the 50's (fahrenheit) this week, not really the kind of weather we usually get! It should be about 35 degrees colder that this. Michael has been working for UAP all week hauling fertilizer to the spreaders, and a few miles south of here, farmers have been busy in the fields applying nitrogen fertilizer and some tillage has been done. Shirtsleeve weather in January is pretty unheard of. Recently the the temperature was exactly 100 degrees warmer than the all time Iowa low of -49 F set many years ago on the same date.