‘Race against time’: Rideau Canal skating rink faces 1st year without opening
The weather this winter season has not cooperated.
“Unfortunately, so far this winter, we just haven’t had those conditions,” said Geoff Coulson, warning preparedness meteorologist with Environment Canada. Coulson said Ottawa and many places across eastern and southern Ontario have had “mild conditions” through the month of December and January.The city saw a really cold start to February with temperatures dropping to -33 C on Feb. 4, but it has been mild since then, experts say.“While February did have some seasonal temperatures or even somewhat colder than seasonal temperatures to start off the month, we’ve gotten back into this milder air mass over the last few days,” Coulson told Global News.
The mild winter has in fact made it difficult to sustain outdoor skating rinks in other parts of the country as well, said Farnell.Will the Rideau Canal rink open this year? With the opening of the Rideau Canal Skateway already delayed and mild weather conditions expected to continue for the next week to 10 days, the prospect of the skating trail opening at all “doesn’t look good,” said Farnell.“At least for the next week to maybe nine or 10 days, temperatures are actually going to be above freezing most afternoons and definitely not in that -10 to -20 range,” he said.
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