The pavé will be the same, not just wet but can be greasy, muddy, gritty, damp, firm, soft and more. Skiers know that you don’t just have snow or not, the texture, consistency, temperature and more all makes a big difference for winter sports. Still this only means it’s less likely to rain and it’s been a statistical curiosity that this one Sunday in spring has been dry every year for so long, like coin toss that kept coming up tails. Only late March and early April is statistically the driest time of year for France’s north as the data in the chart above shows, the blue bars show rainfall in millimetres. Northern France isn’t famous for good weather and spring is wet: the French talk of giboulées de mars, like the April showers in England. It’s odd that’s been dry for every edition since 2002 (it rained during 2012 but only a few drops, just enough to dampen the dust). It looks like it’ll be wet but there’s a world of difference between some showers overnight before the race and a downpour during it. This weekend looks wet but predicting the conditions for Saturday and Sunday seems to be as hard as picking who will win the races. It’s going to be wet for Paris-Roubaix and this is novel, none of the starters have ridden a wet Paris-Roubaix before. Local newspaper La Voix du Nord promises enfer météorologique this weekend.
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