In a word, wet and dark. I'm in San Antonio, Texas, USA and the weather has been unusually rainy all year with serious flooding in July. Weather's so crummy here the South Texas Celtic Festival in Corpus Christi that lots of us were scheduled to play had to be called off this weekend.

Fingerbuster, I don't know exactly what you meant by a hot country, but a light up the fireplace, put on every piece of down-filled clothing you can find and stock up on food & drink because it may be too cold to leave the house kind of day here is about 40 degrees. We do seem to get a 20-something degree overnight temp at least once a year, though.