I’ve been grateful not to live in the middle of Canada, as some friends of ours did, during winter. One year we had -12 at night, -5 in the day where they were down to -52 at night, -40 in the day (Prince Albert in Saskatchewan).
It seems likely that we’ll get a little snow in the next day or so.
When we lived in Canada, I recall going on a skiing weekend at +2C and then wakening the following morning to -29C. Apparently it dropped 16C in 2 hours. 
Personally, I always preferred the cold to the heat.
Very cold here, will be driving to work in -6 tomorrow morning!
Watch out for ice… and for other vehicles that haven’t watched out for ice 
I know, I’ve got about 15 km on windy, hilly roads through the woods, will be taking it very slowly!
I’m for 3 seasons. Get rid of winter.
It was a cracking blue sky here in 34 for most of the day, and in the sun it’s lovely, but that wind, ouch! It can be really biting, and it’s incredible how quickly the temps dropped, but still very dry!
Me too, although down here (12) winter’s usually short and we’ll nip down to Spain for part of it.
When I lived on the Eastern Cape it only seemed to have three seasons - Spring, summer and winter. Spring is glorious when the (originally Australian!) jacarandas and coral trees come into blossom
In summer the local succulents’ thick fleshy leaves change colour from bright green to yellow ochre to burnt orange to deep red, and then they flower, which is amazingly intense at sunset. Red hot pokers!
Winter: most plants still have their leaves, but it seems bitterly cold at night tho’ only c.C8!) because houses are so poorly insulated and have very big single glazed windows, but then c.C20° in the day - two seasons every 24 hours. And at night the air is scented by burning thornbush - the same smell you’d get sat around a camp fire in a game reserve.
For some food is a nostalgic memory of somewhere else, but for me smell immediately cuts right through intellect to emotional evocation. Would love to have a stash of thornbush that I could burn like incense.
We have 10cm of snow here in Calvados. The forecast was a light dusting…
I can confirm that.
I’ve just come down from sweeping snow off my PV panels. I’ll take everything I can on a Tempo red day 
Snowing lightly here in the 89.
On the western edge of Vire, Calvados at 11:00
They don’t give temps above freezing now till midday Thurs. 
I hope a few cars go down the lane to clear a track because if snow on the roadway freezes it will be extremely tricky. Both sides of the lane are stone walls. The width is only a car + wing mirrors +/- 20cms either side. There is no room for error. And it’s very steep, downhill. I very much doubt the council will send a gritter down our lane.
As for the seasons … I was in Trinidad a few years ago for Christmas + 2 months. The ‘Christmas breezes’ [dry season] failed. There were not three consecutive days when it did not rain and only two pairs of days of no rain in 10 weeks. The temps were 28C-30C and the humidity awful, the mosquitos appalling.
Loads of Trinis went off from Port of Spain up the coast somewhere for New Year. Rain washed a large lump of the hillside onto the road and they were all trpped the wrong side of a mountain of rockfall for many days.
Trini. 
We were in the Lot from mid September until mid October last Autumn and by the end of the visit we were weary of 30C plus every day and would have welcomed a day of rain. Compared to the weather we’ve had the last few weeks in blighty however it was glorious. I found this
Absolutely freezing here! Currently clear sky but possibility of light snow tomorrow. Last year when they said that I had enough to go sledding 
We had about two months of it after you left - eventually we fled to Valencia!
Pressure from some of ‘the Dutch’ resulted in our Weds hiking group moving to today cos’ tomorrow’s forecast isn’t good. I moaned about people being pathetic - there’s an outdoor clothing shop in Keswick (actually 24 when we left the UK for good) with a a big sign proclaiming, 'There’s no such thing as the ‘wrong weather, only the "wrong’ clothing". My wife tells me I cite it too often and I might upset someone. I tell her the Dutch are brutally frank.
So this afternoon moaningly went on a gentle 10km walk at around 600m altitude on the Lot / Cantal border. “It’s a boring walk!” and “It’s all conifers.” and “I don’t like the vernacular architecture - it’s too grey!” Nevertheless had a great time,temp around zero, but completely clear skies above, and below, frozen chestnut leaves scrunching underfoot. Also so little humidity that despite the exertion of walking quite fast, one didn’t sweat.
An afternoon well spent.
Those Dutch would probably say ‘er is geen slecht weer, alleen slechte Kleding’ unprompted, I hear it regularly in German.
So, how many languages don’t you know?
I disagree to an extent.
Although many types of weather can be mitigated by the right clothing, if it is raining hard enough for long enough you will get wet unless you are wearing a house.
Ah, you might live in Yorkshire, but I don’t think you’re thier born and bred!
I’m sure you remember Monty Python’s Yorkshiremen sketch (won’t post a link 'cos everyone knows it by heart).
Or a Barbour - that’s why it’s a rural Northern England winter (and summer) uniform that sartorially unites peasant and aristo.
