Hi Mike, not at all! Happy to help
The temps were cool in the morning generally, I would start off with a thermal and a top layererd zip up Kathmandu jersey, not a woolly thing, and maybe my jacket and a scarf, but by 10am it was warm enough to be in a tshirt. So plan on warm days but cool nights. I think the other kiwis I met also agreed with this theory. We handle the cold really well. The Americans and Koreans were always layered up to the max. I wore shorts over the Pyrenees for example! Although it was a beaut day just with a cold mountain wind.
Compared to our temps here lately, no, it was warmer during the day, and could get down to 4 deg at night over there. There was no snow over the Pyrenees when I walked, only had 3 days of rain to walk in, two it was torrential, one it was light rain. That's out of 39 walking days! I was very lucky!
I did plan before I went to do smaller distances than what John
Brierly recommends in his book. But I ended up doing between 18-21km a day. My friend and I (a kiwi I met over there) we tried to plan on stopping for the night away from the main places in the guidebook. But we needednt have worried about not getting a bed as the numbers of pilgrims are low at this time of year still. In my opinion. I want to walk it again and at the exact same time of the year as from comparing it to others accounts of their experiences, I feel it was perfect. Not too hot, not too cold. Not too many pilgrims, no racing for beds.
Hope this helps mike! Happy to answer any other questions you may have