after a rain soaked opening ceremony last week Olympic fans are adjusting to a very different experience a heatwave most of France is under a heatwave warning with temperatures in Paris and its surrounding areas expecting to clim to 35° C or higher according to the French national weather agency visitors and residents cooled off by drinking water and staying in the shade paris's train and Metro operator said over over 2 and A2 million containers of water will be distributed at public transport stations France's national weather agency described heat waves as increasingly intense frequent early and longlasting amid climate change it said that before 1989 such high temperatures were observed on average once every 5 years but since 2000 they've been repeating every year it predicts the trend will keep increasing