How bad can the weather be

We thought we'd had pretty nice weather today, the sun was shining, there were couple of snow showers and it was a bit windy when we took the dog out. Pretty much like it has been for the last couple of months here minus the snow of course as it has only been raining. So we didn't think anything of the weather until we read the news...according to which we've had miserable weather! Oh well, you live and you learn ;)