Beijing - China is on good weather. At the opening ceremony on Friday, not a drop of rain fell - despite cloudy skies.
That is - if it goes to the organizers - remain the next few weeks. So conjure Chinese farmers in the coming days regularly away with a rocket stunt the rain clouds.
Nationally, 50,000 farmers are to have been equipped with up to four anti-aircraft guns. Silver iodide, vaccination is the magic word. Threatening clouds are bombarded with the chemical compound of silver and iodine.
The yellowish salt pulls the water in the cloud, almost like a magnet, it forms tiny ice crystals in the cloud. Is difficult. So badly that she has no other choice than abzuregnen. Where it wants the man straight.
This does not happen naturally over the competition venues, but via remote areas. 26 rain missile bases alone there are around Beijing. No wonder: August is one of the classic bad-weather months in the Beijing region. "The probability of rain each day is constant at 44 percent," reported our EXPRESS-Uwe Bödecker Olympic reporters on Friday before the opening ceremony.
The went into the evening hours at about 30 degrees and light rain without clouds, plus mandatory smog across the stage. The 91,000 spectators in Beijing's National Stadium were dry. To be announced Sunday, but rain and thunderstorms. Then the weather guns are used again. The massive vaccination campaigns costing millions. To the Chinese, nothing special: they have in the past five years, approximately 500 million U.S. dollars 332 million (euros) for weather influences output.
