Possible Clues:

• Cold, unfriendly
• In need of a jacket
• Elevation in Cyprus that's rather cold
• Not so hot to be not so mountainous in the end
• It's not so hot on the other side of the Atlantic, by the sound of it
• Unfriendly, as a greeting
• (Of weather) bracing
• Freezing cold, as the Downs are
• Unfriendly, as a reception
• Cold? Not even slightly so