Add to that the highs which have blocked the tropical storms, so we haven't had the extra hot, humid air masses we saw last summer.
But the coolness in the air doesn't mean autumn is arriving already. It's simply bad luck. I said last week that if you imagine the seasons as speed zones, then summer is a 100km/h zone and autumn is a 70km/h ... but we've been driving at 70 all summer so the change to the autumn speed zone will have little impact.
And just to get an idea as to how cool some of our days and nights have been, a poll run at WeatherWatch.co.nz this week asked readers if they had used home heating this summer, be it fires, heatpumps or heaters. Forty per cent have said "yes" so far.
"Heatpumps have been on heat instead of cooling," said Denis Wadworth of New Plymouth.
Nicola Nicholson of Auckland told us: "Had to turn my baby's heater on in the wee hours this morning, it was freezing! Even had to turn our HRV off at night as it's too breezy!"
As for the rest of February: I think we'll see a slight improvement, but the days are quickly running out for the really hot stuff.