Only, the group of weather enthusiasts creating Buffalo’s interactive “Weather Experience Center” don’t consider blizzards “crummy.” Instead, they hope to capitalize on Buffalo’s changeable weather by feature it and other dramatic phenomena such as tornadoes and hurricanes in a museum-quality waterfront building.
One feature on the center’s drawing board is a “blizzard room,” where visitors can bundle into hats and gloves and experience the wind and snow of a blizzard. Also slated are an IMAX theater that will showcase tornado-chasing, and a glass-walled structure that will allow visitors to watch snow roll in off the lake while experts explain what is happening as it happens.
As a lover of extreme weather myself, I would be in to visiting an interactive weather center. It might not draw me to Buffalo, however, as I generally get a daily show 9 months out of the year from my living room window.