Personally i like any variation in winter weather away from the wind AND rain…i don’t mind either on their own. We get snow every winter, whether that’s for a day or a week. I am a coldie, the weather has been gorgeous this last week, however, I don’t chase it. It’s different for us living on a hillside in the pennines to somebody living in a semi-detatched house in Hastings (for example). The difference being is that we face the extremes of winter weather and i’m sure any hill dweller will tell you that we just don’t like the wind AND rain.