Sounds a bit like your normal British cold; that's why we moan about it even though its barely freezing. Best thing about it is coming in afterwards to a hot cup of tea and a warm fire. But a few years back I was in Lincolnshire and we had freakishly cold weather straight from Siberia - this was in the late 1980s - and heavy snow; and it was crisp, invigorating, dry cold; absolutely lovely to be out in. Not so good for getting the milk tanker through, though.