February 2020 weather

While my homeland was being battered by weekend storm after weekend storm, the part of the Continent where I stay resembled more a mediocre beginning of spring than the cusp of winter. The temperature would drop below zero at night and rise above it again during the day; the wind would often be biting, especially late in the morning; but while there was luckily nothing dramatic about those days, there was unfortunately nothing picturesque about them either. 'Drab' , 'dreary' and 'dismal' are the adjectives which probably describe them best.