The AFR's mirror-ambush plan
Balbalis would not allow to stop for this assembly; the snowfall was worse in the Convexity because of the fans to the south.
Context
A throwaway clause as the AFR van drives north: the blizzard is worse in the Convexity because of the fans — the weather itself is an artifact of the waste-displacement loop. The man-made ring now generates its own climate, which the book's climactic storm rides in on.