Currently, the Beijing weather engineering office, under the Beijing Municipal Meteorological Bureau, is carrying out an Olympic weather modification project.

Assisted by satellite monitoring, the office will apply the latest cloud seeding technologies to prevent rain from falling during the three and half hours -- from 8:08 pm to around 11:30 pm -- onto the Bird's Nest.

It's still hard to say whether this project will work or not. However, as Zhang's team is reportedly holding a full dress rehearsal of the ceremony at the end of the month, a testing ground may be offered to the cloud seeders as well if it happens to rain.