Its just weird. Isn't it just like a chemical reaction? Bring the thing that you will burn (charcoal or, in my case tonight, okra trunks (but some charcoal too, so don't try and blame it on the okra trunks)), in touch with the thing that will help light it (lighter fluid, and I doused it HARD CORE, actually restarted it several time with tons of lighter fluid it was burning so shitty), and make sure it has plenty of oxygen (smoker air door was open wide), and start it. I don't understand why it would burn like shit in cold weather. It ain't human so its not like it has feelings. What on earth would make it burn worse in cold weather? It can't be oxygen, cars run FASTER in cold weather because the oxygen is denser. So that should help if anything. Makes absolutely NO sense to me...