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A boy gets a haircut featuring an Olympic Fuwa mascot in Tianjin August 3, 2008. Wu Dasheng, a local Beijing barber, offers the boys in his neighborhood a free Olympic-themed haircut as part of his effort to cheer for the upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. (Photo: China Daily/Agencies)

A pair of twins show their Olympic-themed haircuts in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, August 3, 2008.(Photo: China Daily/Agenices)

A boy with a Beijing 2008 Olympic haircut drinks at a community centre in Beijing August 2, 2008. (Photo: China Daily)

A boy with a Beijing 2008 Olympic haircut plays at a community centre in Beijing August 2, 2008. (Photo: China Daily)

A boy with a Beijing 2008 Olympic haircut plays at a community centre in Beijing August 2, 2008. (Photo: China Daily)

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Fireworks explode with an Olympic logo over Beijing’s National Stadium, or ‘Bird’s Nest’, during a rehearsal of the opening ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, August 2, 2008. [Agencies]

Beijing is praying for the mercy of Mother Nature this Friday, as the latest weather forecast calls for rain and thunderstorms on the day of the Opening Ceremony.

“We may see a cloudy sky on August 8, and it will probably also meet scattered showers or thunderstorms,” said Wang Jianjie, deputy director of the Beijing Meteorological Bureau. “The highest temperature may be between 30 and 32 C.”

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BEIJING — Olympic organizers unblocked some Internet sites at the main press center and media venues Friday while others remained off limits for journalists covering the Beijing games.

The move falls short of the “free and unfettered access” the organizers and Chinese officials had promised for months. However, it was an improvement from earlier in the week when sites for the likes of Amnesty International or Tiananmen Square could not be opened.

Senior International Olympic Committee officials met late into the night Thursday with their Chinese counterparts and said they reached an agreement to unblock sites, although the IOC statement said the details were still being formulated.

“We trust them to keep their promise,” the International Olympic Committee said.

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