Winterswijk ice rink opens to outdoor skaters in 2025 first
Skaters were able to take to natural ice at the Winterswijk outdoor rink close to the German border on Tuesday morning, after several days of frost.
“The ice is perfect,” the rink’s ice master Henk Te Selle told broadcaster NOS. “It was a good night and the temperature was right.” According to the AD, the Winterswijk ice is now eight centimetres thick.
The skating fun is set to be short-lived, however. According to weather forecasters, warmer air is set to move into the Netherlands later today and cloud will stop the temperature dipping below zero tonight. However, there may be more frost again on Friday.
The Netherlands has some 200 ice clubs which go all out to create outdoor ice rinks – often by spraying a concrete track with water – when a spell of frost is predicted.
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