Friday, February 20, 2009

White Beijing

There's been a bit of fuss around here lately about a drought here in Beijing and surrounding environs. Apparently it hadn't rained in over 3 months, so when it finally rained last week, it was a bit of a relief. But I was a bit suspicious. Especially when it snowed for a couple days after that.

So when I read online that the rain (and snow) had been seeded, I wasn't so surprised. My theory is that they used up all their fall rain by shooting their rain-making missiles in the summer, so now they have to get a rain advance on their spring rain.

I don't mind the snow so much, although apparently a few of the highways around had to be closed. Hopefully the cold has refrozen the lakes so we can go icechairing again!

2 comments:

Florence said...

seeded....? As in... artificially produced? Call me ignorant but I had no idea this could happen. Geez.. haha

J.Dou said...

Yeah, they started doing it before the Olympics. Some areas of the states actually use seeding, farmers and ski resorts, I think, but they don't use it to this extreme.

Before the Olympics, it rained like crazy. I heard because the government wanted all the rain to clear the pollution out and also not fall during Olympic events.

Yikes!