It wouldn't be an Arisia without the weather.

[donnad.livejournal.com]

According to Channel 7 news this evening, the long range weather forecast.

"Winter returns with a vengeance at the end of next week."

Now what this means they did not elaborate on. It could mean frigid cold, it could mean snow. It could mean absolutely nothing at all this far in advance, as anything that might be coming at us could fizzle out before it gets here.

But so far the Channel 7 weather crew have been pretty good this winter.

Plan accordingly...

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Hey, I was snowbound at Arisia a few years ago... It was fun, in our top floor hotel room, listening to the blizzard wind howling outside. And looking out the window and not being able to see the street below because it was snowing so hard. And don't forget the snowman I made with the snow that blew in under the door in the art show.



It wasn't fun to come home to four foot snow drifts that had to be shoveled before we could get in the house.

Comments

[c1.livejournal.com]

It's New England in January. You're wanting sun, 70's, and a light breeze from the southwest?

Seriously, my favourite GOH reaction was from Tim Powers in '04. Coming as he was from SoCal, it was his estimation that people took their very lives into their hands by merely venturing out onto the sidewalk in front of the hotel. "I mean, you could DIE out there!" The whole weekend, he couldn't wrap his head around how I got by wearing a kilt in that weather.

[donnad.livejournal.com]

Not me, I like the snow.
But it was 67 degrees just a few days ago!

67 degrees

[c1.livejournal.com]

That I put my motorcycle to bed and kissed her goodnight for the long, cold night was thrown into sharp relief this afternoon, when someone whizzed past on his motorcycle.

*sigh*

Don't mind cold...

[mdg1.livejournal.com]

It's the White Evil From Above that makes my life difficult.

Re: Don't mind cold...

[c1.livejournal.com]

I keep my Gore-Tex shell gear, my snowshoes, and my Grivel crampons at hand from about August through June. You never know...

Re: Don't mind cold...

[mdg1.livejournal.com]

Crampons don't help much when you are driving :/

Neither do jumper cables and a fire extinguisher

[c1.livejournal.com]

... but I keep both in the back, just in case. Oh, and snow tyres.

The other stuff helps a lot when I'm driving to mountains that are covered in white, fluffy goodness.

[autumnlaughing.livejournal.com]

Wait.. didn't *that* happen two years ago?

I remember walking home to our hotel (a few blocks away..) in a corset + thin shawl in the drizzle at 3am and not being cold.

(Of course, then there's the previous Arisia that I'd been too - I remember getting lost in Chinatown at 3am looking for food. The memories of finding food are pretty fuzzy - by the time we did, I apparently tried to eat the cream cheese packet, unopened. I thought it was the bagel. I hear it was 40 below that night (w/ windchill) and I didn't own a real winter coat that year...)