Operation Beijing Storm

[fplowman]

Crazy stuff here.

Definitely unconventional thinkers. Of course in the US if they tried this they would have all kinds of protests. Something the Chinese are able to beat down.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080411/sc_nm/olympics_weather_dc

 

[Josh Murfield]

This is crazy! I'm not sure how they can be sure they'd be able to make any rain clouds rain themselves out before getting to the stadium- just their luck they'd turn a moderate rain into a raging downpour right over the stadium by doing this. It'll be interesting to see how it goes, that's for sure.

 

[Karen Politte]

Wouldn't it just have been cheaper to build a big stadium with a retractable roof???

Maybe I'm thinking too logically...........jeesh!

KP

 

[David Croan]

Wouldn't it just have been cheaper to build a big stadium with a retractable roof???

Maybe I'm thinking too logically...........jeesh!

KP

Well, perhaps if that was the only reason for it - but it's not. Also, China considers itself to be the world leader in cloud-seeding, so it is to be expected that they would use it in some way for the Games.

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/070425/ap/d8onm45g0.html

 

[Aaron Kennedy]

Tons of weather mod in the states too... usually to try and produce rain or suppress hail.

 

[Mike Peregrine]

I wonder where they get a 47% chance of rain on August 8th?

If you don't like the weather, it's always good to attempt to manipulate it. Because nothing could possibly go wrong with having 21 rocket launchers shooting silver iodide around a dense population center.