Olympic Weather

 If you are an Olympic enthusiast and/or weather junkie and are looking for real-time weather information for the venues, the english version of the Beijing 2022 Weather Portal is available at https://olympic.weather.com.cn/en_dongao/.  

There's a pretty nice display with real-time data for the Yanqing Alpine Center showing station locations with access to wind, temperature, and humidity information.  

As I type this, it's almost midnight in Beijing.  Current temperature at the downhill start is -17.2˚C (1˚F).  

Winds were almost 30 knots as well.  BRUTAL.  Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get, but cold and windy is a very real possibility during these games.  

I've noticed that the time series of observations from the site are frequently old.  It seems to key off of the local time at my location, whereas Beijing is ahead of Utah time.  I've found the best way around this is to change the time in the "to" window to current Beijing time and hit search.  The window reverts back to Utah time, but the time series appears to be up to date.  

That time series shows the high at the start of the downhill yesterday was only about -15˚C it was as cold as -19˚C.  Again, BRUTAL.  

Looking at yesterday at the last 24 hours at the Cross-Country Center, the minimum yesterday morning was -17˚C (1.4˚F) and the maximum yesterday afternoon was -11 (12.2˚F).  However, in the afternoon it was also windy with gusts to over 10 m/s (20 knots).  

Will be interesting to see what the weather brings for the Games.  One thing I didn't see on the site is air quality info.  Hmmm....