Just got back from walking the dog up to the farm in the moonlight. The forecast said it would drop to below freezing up here in Scottyland tonight but at midnight it still felt much like it has been in the sun earlier today. Warm and mild to the extent that instead of needing the usual fleece under my top jacket before going out I was wandering about with no fleece and my jacket unzipped and not feeling any hint of cold. Then I got home and checked the outside thermometer and it's just on or even a tad below zero which astonished me.
Maybe it's the total lack of wind for the first time in months. It's dead calm tonight. The windchill must make a huge difference to the feeling of cold but I'm still astonished that tonight feels so mild yet registers as freezing. Usually it's blowing a gale up here and it bites through whatever you're wearing in a couple of minutes so I guess it must just be that. Very odd though. It feels like a summer evening so perhaps we just get so used to bitter cold in the wind chill that anything less feels mild.