I've noticed the same thing. My smokes don't seem to burn the same in cold weather. I prefer to smoke outside, simply because I prefer to BE outside. But these (like today) -14 temps suck ass, at least as far as smoking, and drinking, and starting the truck, and scraping ice, and shoveling snow, and keeping snot from freezing to your lip, and ..... oh who am I kidding, winter just plain old sucks ass!