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Thunder, lightning and heavy rain hits Paris on Day 6 of Olympics

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Reuters

<div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A thunderstorm swept through Paris on Thursday evening (August 1), with the weather seesawing between heat, humidity and rains on the first week of the Olympic Games.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Scattered rain showers were observed across the city, punctuated with thunder and lightning.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Games’ opening ceremony was a wet event, with spectators and athletes drenched in rain.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rainy episodes the past week also led to the postponement of the men’s triathlon event, which finally took place after the women’s triathlon on Wednesday (July 31).</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paris is expected to be partially cloudy on Friday (August 2), and progressively sunny, with a maximum temperature of 27 degrees Celsius (80.6 degrees Fahrenheit).</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thirteen departments in southeast France are on the second highest heat waves alert for Friday (August 2).</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><em>(Production: Joyce Zhou, Ngouda Dione, Ilze Filks, Irene Wang, Miguel Pereira, Louise Dalmasso, Juarawee Kittisilpa, Christine Uyanik, Thomas Suen, Leonardo Benassatto, Stefan Haskins, Tim Hart)</em></span></div>

<p>A thunderstorm swept through Paris on Thursday evening (August 1), with the weather seesawing between heat, humidity and rains on the first week of the Olympic Games.</p>

A thunderstorm swept through Paris on Thursday evening (August 1), with the weather seesawing between heat, humidity and rains on the first week of the Olympic Games.