Travel China and Beyond

Here is a great newsarticle in the Beijing media — “Beijing to appologize for erroneous weather forecasts…”

Last year I saw an “interesting” article in the  China Daily -  at the time one of the government departments had stated that they are forecasting a “perfect” weather for the opening of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.  Many of us (residents in Beijing) were surprised at the forecast — how could you make such a long range prediction…but then many things surprise us in China every so often, so what’s new, right

Well, this week the Beijing weather bureau appologized to the public for providing incorrect forecast for a couple of days — they missed the temperature forecast by 6 degrees C or so… In the big scheme of things this does not surprise me — after all weather forecast is not an easy science, but I wonder who and how will not predict the weather forecast for August 8th, 2008 — Olympics Opening Day….