Talk about weird weather.

A few weeks ago, folks in Lawrence and northeast Kansas were shivering through the region’s worst ice storm in years.

But Tuesday, temperatures climbed into the lower 60s, hail pelted motorists and the city was placed under its first February severe thunderstorm warning in a decade.

“It’s pretty unusual for February,” 6News meteorologist Doug Heady said. “We usually don’t see our first severe weather event until March.”

The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday for northern Douglas County. Before the warning expired at 4 p.m., weather spotters reported 3/4-inch hail at Stull and 1-inch hail two miles north of Lawrence, said Jim Phillips, a meteorologist with WeatherData, a private forecasting service in Wichita.

Hail isn’t too out of the ordinary for late February, Phillips said.

“It’s maybe a little early for that, but not real early,” he said. “Particularly early March, you’ll get hail. It’s not as difficult to get hail out of early-spring thunderstorms as it is to get other things, such as tornadoes.”

Rain also soaked the area and contributed to at least one injury accident on Interstate 70, just east of the Lecompton interchange.

Between 2:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, about 0.2 inches of rain fell in Lawrence, Heady said. Most area cities during the same time period received a little more precipitation. Baldwin logged in at 0.36 inches, and Eudora got 0.23 inches, Heady said. Clinton received 0.41 inches; Lecompton got 0.37 inches; and Tonganoxie soaked up 0.52 inches, Heady said.

Tuesday’s temperature didn’t beat the city’s record high  75 degrees  set in 1941. But 63 is still well above the normal temperature for this time of year, which hovers around 47 degrees, Phillips said.

“The normal high for Lawrence on April 1 is 63. That was our high today, and April is a good month and a half away,” he said Tuesday.

Things should be getting back to normal today, with highs in the upper 50s, dropping to upper 40s on Thursday, Phillips said.

But area residents can expect another turn-around early next week.

A cold weather system is expected to send Tuesday’s temperatures into the 30s, with lows in the upper teens, Phillips said.

“As you start to head into the end of February, people start looking forward to spring,” he said. “This will just be a reminder that it’s still February.”