Rain is expected to seriously disrupt the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The disaster was feared, the disaster will happen. After several days with great uncertainties, the rain will be present all day in the Paris region and particularly in Paris according to the latest forecasts from Météo France. A big rainy episode is even expected at the end of the day, a few minutes before the kick-off of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics 2024. Gusts of wind are also expected during the evening, a delicate meteorological situation with the presence of many boats in a Seine which could have a strong flow of water.
It’s expected between 6pm and 7pm. And the cumulative rainfall between 6pm and 7pm and midnight is expected to be quite significant. Up to 25-30mm of rain is expected. To give you a comparison, that’s the equivalent of 15 days of precipitation in a few hours. It’s not lighting the fire, it’s really putting it out,” explained a weather specialist on RMC this Friday, July 26.
Latest updates
15:28 – Yellow alert in Paris
Météo-France places Paris and the Île-de-France region on yellow alert for rain and flooding from 8 p.m. this evening, half an hour after the start of the opening ceremony.
15:22 – The latest update from Météo France
“In the evening, new rains will rise from the Orléanais on the Paris basin. They could hit the capital from 7pm-8pm and throughout the ceremony, being moderate to heavy. The heaviest accumulations are expected between 9pm and 11pm. Weather models over the last 48 hours have struggled to understand this situation, with a risk that has been yo-yoing: it was 30% yesterday, it was reassessed upwards to 100% at 2pm. Unfortunately, there is less and less doubt that this ceremony will take place in the rain.”
10:50 – 70 to 80% chance of rain
“The forecasts have completely reversed since yesterday (Thursday): the models now predict a 70 to 80% chance of rain during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games,” Cyrille Duchesne, head of the forecasting department at Meteo Consult/La Chaîne Météo, told Agence France-Presse.
09:00 – Heavy rain forecast
This is the very bad news of the day, the weather! A huge accumulation of rain is expected at the end of the day in Paris, 15 days of precipitation are even expected in a few hours.