Thread by @StephenMcDonell

Big thunderstorm brewing in #Beijing right now. It’s 3.40 in the afternoon gone dark. #China

Big thunderstorm brewing in #Beijing right now. It’s 3.45 in the afternoon and gone dark. #China

Big thunderstorm brewing in #Beijing right now. It’s 3.47 in the afternoon and gone dark. #China

Afternoon storm turns #Beijing black at 3.50pm.

Then the #Beijing skyline disappears as the rain buckets down... #China

As you can see from the thread above, some cloud seeding bloke must've been walking along and tripped over, accidentally hitting the "fire all" button twice, launching 10x normal pre-Congress silver iodide into the sky to really make it piss down to be clear for tomorrow. ;-)

#Beijing storm starting to lift...