The Weather Machine got broken?

Already??

After three peachy-perfect days over the weekend, yesterday and today have been sultry, hazy, smoggy once again.

Maybe they're still fine-tuning the secret weather-control machine? Or maybe it's run by the same species of half-wit that twiddles the Internet censorship knobs down at Kafka Central?

Of course, I'm not really surprised. It does seem to be an impossible juggling act the authorities are trying to pull off here.

If it gets too humid, pollution inevitably gets trapped in the air. Yet this is naturally the most humid month of the entire year. And how can they stop it getting humid, unless they drain all the water out of the countryside for hundreds of miles to the west of here (oops, they might actually have done that), and stop it raining in the city too (well, they've been trying that for the past few days; and guess what, the earth is already bone-dry and starting to fill the air with dust!)?

The BOCOG boys and the city government need a lot of rain - to stop the grass and trees from dying, to freshen the air, to lower the temperature, to "rinse" some of the crap out of the sky. But nobody likes too much rain - it becomes impossible to get a cab, the streets flood, the sewers overflow, and it gets insufferably humid straight afterwards.

No, I feel sure it must be an impossible balance to strike. And however magical the secret weather-control machine is, and however much experimental knob-twiddling its dedicated operators indulge in, we are certainly going to get a fair proportion of crappy days this month. (Hmmm, I wonder if I could get Anson Williams to sing that, and post it on YouTube? Another Crazy 'Art' Idea!!).