The Nagano Winter Olympics open

Cold and mostly clear before dawn, the air near 20°F and still, a few clouds drifting over the stars. Cloud thickened for an hour around sunrise and then cleared off, and the morning turned bright and sharp, the air climbing past 28° by mid-morning and to near 34° in the early afternoon under a sky that was clear one hour and half full the next. Thin winter sun. By late afternoon the cloud had closed in for good and the evening went grey and raw, a wind getting up late and the air near 28° under it.