Windy with weird warmth

Just as we thought Winter had finally kicked in, we got a strange wind that ushered in +50 degree weather (yes, that's Fahrenheit - we aren't in the Gobi Desert).  It took down branches everywhere.  The ducks must've been very alarmed in their hut at night when things like this were falling:

For scale (note slippers modeled on Wallace's (as in "and Gromit")

All right, so that's not too terrible, but there were entire trees elsewhere in the neighbourhood, honest!
Anyway, proof of warm weather - Frederick walking with no coat and no snow to be seen: