I had to chuckle at your comment "the weather turned cold" when i looked at your location.
My comment would be for summer "the weather got to hot to work outside"
Here i would think nothing of dropping a starter at -20 C which i believe is -4 F
But when it gets hot like 35 C or 95 F i am inside trying to stay cool somehow, and working is the furthest thing from my mind
Plus put me in the proud deplorable camp.Here we were called the fringe minority by our Blackfaced "leader"
You can try to carefully short out the starter by applying power to the small terminal from the big one with a screwdriver or similar just remember the carefully part as you can melt things if the screwdriver touches ground.
I have used that trick many times to get something running