Then came a particularly harsh winter, which required a warmer jacket, and by the time the air turned mild again the coat was nowhere to be seen.
The first week of February was cold and settled, but it turned milder later in the month as westerly winds returned, spreading bands of rain across all areas.
"Temperatures turned milder in some parts of the country, which helped drive seasonal demand — especially in the South and ahead of Mother's Day," said Michael Niemira, the group's chief economist.
The bayside city enjoys sunshine for two-thirds of the year, and the balmy summers turn to mild winters.
But giving it can be dicey in the early stages of a stroke because it can help turn a mild ischemic stroke into a devastating bleeding one.
Five or six jobs are lost, and this process, multiplied across the economy, can help to turn a mild downturn into a very painful one.
These imbalances can turn a mild downturn into something nastier, causing inflation to undershoot or, worse, to turn to deflation, as in Japan.
If a recession develops and people start worrying that they have too little equity left to continue borrowing safely against their homes, the blow to spending could turn a mild recession into a prolonged one.
The longer a bubble is allowed to inflate, the more it encourages the build-up of other imbalances, such as too much borrowing and investment, which have the power to turn a mild downturn into something nastier.
In the absence of snow (and I admit, the chilly VIP only rarely turns up to the party given in his honour) Christmas demanded some other form of bad weather, and if it did turn out mild, at least I could read literary descriptions of bad weather knowing they were not far removed from reality.
