Misty start, warm and sunny later. Research shows that it's quite normal to get a sea breeze 10 or 15 miles inland, and not unusual as many as 40 miles inland, which would certainly account for fresh smells on certain days here.

Got quite carried away with internet weather records. The snowy day in December 1981 that I remember can not have been both the 9th and a Friday. Either Wed 9th or Fri 11th: certainly the cold weather started on the night of the 8th, but then we didn't get any days off school, so it could well have been the Friday.