Have you seen that authorities in Beijing have successfully managed to stop light rainfall in experiments aimed at guaranteeing a dry opening ceremony for the Olympic Games?
There’s no roof on the showpiece Bird’s Nest stadium, so the Beijing Meteorological Bureau has been given the job of developing methods of preventing wet weather spoiling the spectacular opening to the Games on the evening of the 8th of August.
I wonder what was going through the minds of those at the bureau when they were first told that they needed to not only forecast the weather but control it. They must have thought it was quite a joke until they realised the authorities were deadly serious.
All I can say is that I they do have any rain that they don’t want, they’re welcome to send it our way.
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ooh with all the polution in china i’d say they can keep their rain….
Could have used some of that over here recently – it’s been raining steadily since sunday, causing locallised flooding – it took me an hour to drive my normal 10 minute drive to work this morning, so now i’m going to be an hour late for work! 🙁