Can China control the weather?
Posted by lowellr | Filed under Total Solar Eclipse: Live from China
I read a press release today from Xinhua News Agency about Beijing firing over 1000 rain dispersal rockets to break up a series of rain clouds that were planing on crashing the Olympic opening ceremonies. Well if you saw the opening ceremonies, they were not only beautiful but dry. What’s interesting about this story is that we were also told in Yiwu (although after the eclipse) that several rockets were fired to clear our little view of the Eclipse. I mean that is top-notch service, although after you watch the eclipse webcast replay you might say, ” hey… as long you were firing off some cloud killing rockets about a few extras for us nervous eclipse chasers.”
Tags: weather
Return to Urumqi
Posted by lowellr | Filed under Total Solar Eclipse: Live from China
Tags: time lapse, travel, weather
clouds are not your friends
Posted by lowellr | Filed under Total Solar Eclipse: Live from China
Tags: prediction, skies, weather
