China admits "high pressure" over weather

China is adding meteorologists to prepare for the Olympics. From Reuters: ...More than 70 of the country's best provincial weather forecasters would come to Beijing to help out, said Zheng Guoguang, head of the China Meteorological Administration. "The whole nation's strength will be mustered," he told reporters on the sidelines of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, an advisory body to parliament currently meeting in the capital. Weather experts from previous Olympic hosts such as the United States and Australia would also come in August to share their expertise and technology, Zheng said.

"There will be forecasters at every venue to issue detailed weather services in Chinese, English and French, to be updated every hour," said Zheng, who has a PhD from the University of Toronto. He said weather was the most challenging factor in Beijing's preparations for the Games. "The pressure is very high," Xinhua news agency quoted Zheng as saying.