diego7david said:
remember that leather jackets (custom made and fit over night) and cloths in general are good buys in argentina.
Clothes can be expensive if you want name brands. If you want crap, then you can find decent buys here, but not as cheap as in the States. (I don't know if you're coming from Europe or the USA.)
If you're a girl, you want to buy your boots down here. They specialize in them. (A recent thread commented on this.)
pericles said:
Argentina can get much colder than many Europeans and USA citizens believe and even in Buenos Aires it can get very cold at times with a wind chill factor of -5 at times.
A few years ago in the Big Chill of 2007 I remember the month of July being frozen as I was staying in a old antique house with high ceilings and no central heating and every morning it was around 0 degrees and never reached more than 15 degrees the whole month .
WARNING: This is all in
Celsius not Fahrenheit. Do not get the idea that you are going to a frozen tundra.
This means that it can get down to
~23F windchill, mornings can see temperatures right at freezing (
32F) and it might not get up to
59F degrees the whole month.
Quick Points of Reference:
..C.. : ..F..
-40 : -40
-10 : +14
..-5 : +23
....0 : +32
..+5 : +41
+10 : +50
+15 : +59
+20 : +68
There are little fan/space heaters that you can get from ~AR$50 in Once to ~AR$90 in stores in better parts of town. They're all made in CHINA, so they're basically all the same
Once is also a good place for fleece gloves and caps and other types of
crapo.
Good luck.
Winter of '07 was cold, windy, and miserable.
Winter of '08 was extremely mild.
Winter of '09... no sé.