Preparing to be cold

I hate damp cold. For the last week, I have been complaining about the 'around about freezing' temperatures I'm experiencing. No snow, just bone-numbing damp. I am very much looking forward to dry cold; somehow, like dry heat, so much more manageable. Perhaps weeks of just-below-freezing damp cold is good preparation from you-have-to-be-joking levels of dry cold...