WHAT a difference a week makes.

This time last week, people in Oxfordshire were splashing about in fountains, and sunning themselves on punts.

Now they are wrapping up warm and bracing themselves for chillier times to come.

Temperatures last week reached about 27 degrees in Oxfordshire, 10 degrees above average for the time of year.

Yesterday the temperature reached a high of 15 degrees in the county.

Met Office forecaster Dave Britton said: “What we saw last week was a large area of high pressure which was sat over the continent and that brought up very hot air. The weather will now be more settled, but nothing as warm as before.”

Harry Hilser, 26 from Headington, Oxford, who a few days ago was soaking up the sun, said: “Yesterday was the first day I put my double-layered coat on because it was substantially chilly.

“This signals the definite end of the nice weather."