Yeah, and a corollary to that is if you buy weather gear you won't get any of that weather ever again. (Or at least for a good long time.)
Case in point. I bought snow tires five weeks ago. This is winter in northeast Missouri...have we ever in the past few millenniums (millennia?) gotten through December without snowfall? Again and again during the past 5 weeks the temperature dropped below freezing. Again and again rain fell when the temperature was 35-40F. But no snow. No ice.
Until this week! Two days with snow and ice!
I believe that because I bought snow tires, we won't have much of this sort of weather this year.
2009 Trek 7.2FX WSD, brooks Champion Flyer S, commuter bike