I remember it it didn't get very cold in the UK (not near Bournemouth where I'm from anyway) compared to over here, I could scrape the windscreen with a credit card but it's a damp cold that gets in your bones and says there.
Over here, although it's very cold, freeze your tongue to a lamp post cold (yup, I had to try it but to be fair I was only 45), it's dry cold and I don't really feel it too much.
The Canadians around me are bundled up like Scott of the Antarctic and I'm out there shoveling snow in a t-shirt a lot of times. They probably think I'm crazy but you remember what they say about mad dogs and Englishmen eh?