#WEATHER IN VIENNA NEAR YEARS EVE 2017 FREE#
Admission: $6, includes free champagne toast at midnight.
#WEATHER IN VIENNA NEAR YEARS EVE 2017 PLUS#
Heavy Petty: Gainesville band plays the music of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers along with a set with the Ones to Blame plus Mama Trish vs Godzilla, 10 p.m., Double Down Live, 210 SW Second Ave. Global Peace Dance: Live music, singing, dancing and candlelight meditation to bring the year to closure, 7-9:30 p.m., United Church of Gainesville, 1624 NW Fifth Ave. to 12:30 a.m., Thelma Boltin Center, 516 NE Second Ave. Swing and Sway New Year's Dance: Annual event features dancing on a wood floor to music by DJ Big Daddy Chad, bring your own drinks and an hors d'oeurve or dessert to share, 8:30 p.m. Other local celebrations planned tonight for New Year's Eve include: "I think there are supposed to be lows in the mid-to-high 40s or around 50 based on the different reports I see. "The weather should be perfect," Ballard said. Forecasts call for daytime highs in the low 70s and nighttime lows just brisk enough to keep the proceedings cool, Ballard said. The weather appears set to cooperate for the outdoor fest. While alcohol is not allowed in the public plaza, the Lunchbox Cafe, which overlooks the plaza, will be open during the event and sells wine and beer. "We'll have a clock up on the roof of the stage so people can track that," Ballard added. And we've got a bunch of confetti cannons, so right at the stroke of midnight we'll shoot those off, and we get the whole crowd to count down with us the last 10 seconds," Ballard said. "And then at midnight, we'll stop and do our countdown. "The first group, Couch Messiahs, will do about an hour, and then Fast Lane will get going and play to about 12:30 a.m.," said David Ballard, event coordinator for the city of Gainesville. The outdoor bash will start at 9 with classic rock and Americana sounds from the group Couch Messiahs, followed by the R&B/funk of Fast Lane, a group led by Scott Free, a longtime area singer and guitarist known for his association and performances with the plaza's namesake - Bo Diddley - after Diddley moved to North Central Florida in 1978. at the Bo Diddley Community Plaza and will offer two crowd-pleasing bands, streamers and confetti, and the sound of free noisemakers passed out to the audience. The city of Gainesville's Downtown Countdown - which returns as the only free, public celebration inside the city limits - runs from 9 p.m. On Friday morning, New York’s LaGuardia and JFK airports both set record lows of 12 degrees.Tonight, New Year's Eve has a hot date with Saturday night.Īnd as such, the courtship has prompted those who set the stage for such celebrations to take advantage of the rare pas de deux with all manner of events and parties.Several East Coast cities had record cold high temperatures Thursday, including: Boston (12 degrees), Baltimore (24 degrees, tie), Washington Dulles (23 degrees), Syracuse (8 degrees) and New York JFK (19 degrees).Glens Falls, N.Y., also set a record low of minus-20. Watertown, N.Y., shattered Thursday’s previous record low of minus-23, falling to minus-32.set an all-time December record low Thursday, falling to minus-17. Its high the previous day was only minus-12, tying the coldest maximum temperature on record for Dec. International Falls, the so-called icebox of the nation, plummeted to minus-36 on Wednesday, breaking the previous record of minus-32 for the date.27 of minus-4 on Wednesday, previously set in 1925. Detroit tied the daily record low for Dec.Chicago’s high temperature on Tuesday of 5 degrees tied the record for the coldest maximum temperature on Dec.