Football: Rockets to come in handy for Euros

KIEV:

Ukraine is planning to fire rockets to break up rain clouds if bad weather threatens to upset football matches during next month’s Euro 2012 tournament, said a government official yesterday. “Our [missile] batteries are being prepared for dispersing rain clouds,” said the official. 

Forecasters predicted there would be dry, warm weather for at least the first two European Championship games to be played in Ukraine.

“We expect there will be no rain in Ukraine on June 9. The temperature is likely to be between 20 and 24 Celsius degrees,” said Anatoly Prokopenko, who is the deputy head of Ukraine’s State Weather Forecast Centre.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 29^th, 2012.