It’s over so quickly: due to the warm weather, many Carinthian lakes were closed to skaters!
Last Friday the Lendkanaal in Klagenfurt was opened for skating and countless skaters also spent the weekend and holidays on the Aichwaldsee, Hörzerdorfersee and Rauschelesee! Surprisingly, all ice rinks were closed again on Monday: “A wind of 8.5 degrees Celsius was measured at the Rauschelesee,” explains ice master Friedrich Morak in the interview with “Krone”. The death knell for the ice. And despite the closure, there were countless skaters in the closed area on Sunday.
“That is why skating is no longer allowed until further notice,” said Morak, who hopes for colder weather from Friday. Because opening and closing the ice surfaces is a lot of work: “We have to clear the barriers and put up the boards.”
If you want to ice skate, you have to go to Weißensee
At the popular Weißensee, where it was also plus degrees on Monday, there are fewer problems, but there is no reason to worry because of the thick layer of natural ice: “Work continues as usual for us, but it was not really nice for skating on Monday “, admits ice master Norbert Jank.
The wind – there were gusts of up to 50 km/h – softened the surface: “We hope that it will not snow or rain too much in the coming days – then everything should dry out again,” said the long-time ice master. However, he is not worried about the skating season: “We take the weather as it comes, there is always a solution!”
Source: Krone
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