OK, so now the cold spell is going out with a sound like a gently-deflating balloon, I need your marks out of 10 - along with whatever comments you'd like to add.

Should be fun  

5/10.

About 5cm of wet snow on Sat and a few sharp frosts. Standard fare for the UK.

2/10  As only had frost. No very low temperatures. 

A few frost's and cold gray day's that's it 1/10

10/10 Because it didn't fall below zero and I didn't want it to.

You're disqualified

I had a feeling I would be.

You mean the damp spell with a couple of frosts at the end of it?

2/10

Would have been 0/10 had it not been for the lowest maxima in 3 years (which itself is more a reflection on how mild winters have become)

5/10

Only as high as 5 because of the mildness of the preceding weeks - it was nice to have a colder interlude.

We had several hours of snow from Saturday night into Sunday morning and a covering that lasted through much of Sunday.

Several sharp frosts as well, the first decent ones of the winter.

So, nothing exceptional but it was more or less in line with the forecasts, perhaps slightly disappointing.

4/10

Coldest temperature recorded in 3 years.  Air frosts achieved - they have become "rare frosts" ;-)

A cold continental feel this week has made a welcome break from the drudgery of long fetch south-westerlies and some copious rainfall and nagging wind that has proceeded and will follow.

No falling snow IMBY (though that was never a likelihood), so overall, pretty tame, but worthwhile for the reasons added.

WI

Rubbish just 3/10 and that's despite the light cover of snow on Saturday morning which, soon melted.

2 frosts and that's it.

For me I would have to say maybe 2/10.....if we have to hold our breath and cross our fingers in hope, every time, to end up with temperatures and weather that was standard weather and temperatures even during the snowless winters of the nineties and early to mid noughties then 2/10 is all I can give it I am afraid.....IMBY ofcourse

2/10 some decent frosts and a covering of snow. A poor effort hopefully Feb will be better.

Today is day 8 with snow cover and I just pulled out yet another stuck lorry which had slid off packed snow and ice several inches deep.
Hardly worth a mention really... 

Pure trash. Would not even qualify as being as a standard, average January fare.  Low of just -3.1c.

0/10, and that is being overly kind due to my generous and forgiving nature.

 Was there a cold spell

In some years I'd say 2/10- one for a sub -5C and 1 for all-day frost on grass for 2 days. In a rotten year it might score 5. After the December, rubbish predictive posts about coldest of the winter in November, and a sickly pewtrid Christmas, it scores 8. It's Einsteinian.