The measurements provide the time period required to freeze the ice-rink surface as well as the ice temperatures at different locations of the ice-rink floor.
Steve Love, a self-described professional skater, said he was there to assess the rink's surface: it felt smooth, he said, like wood.
Connors finally kicked off the eight-man round-robin tournament on the waterlogged Har-Tru clay court built over the flat cement of Wollman Rink, a surface that was more sandbox than tennis court.
"It looks kind of gray and empty," Fred Theadore, 44, a consultant to the State Health Department, said during a recent midday stroll past the reflecting pool near the Capitol, which would normally be frozen to create the rink's surface.
The rink's surface is actually synthetic hybrid-ice panels, which means that it doesn't need refrigeration units, generators or electricity, and is made with a recyclable polymer compound.
Your blades drawing sparks on the rink's surface as they spun out -- as you, spinning out, still held on tight to the next up, the one fighting now to let go of your hand, the centrifugal pull you'd become -- while on the other side of the mirror, your twin fought the same fight.
Several publications have shown an increase in hospital and emergency department attendance and increase in distal radius fractures after the installation of an ice skating rink with artificial surface ice in the area of that particular hospital [1, 3, 4, 11].
The public spaces at the base, including an immense skating rink, extend the river surface inland.
But what really makes the rink special is its surface: instead of ice, it's made of a special global-warming-proof plastic.
He helped his father operate the natural surface ice rink in Rosthern, often spending hours manually preparing the ice.
