How Fresno is beating the heat with ice

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - One of the hottest weekends of the twelvemonth truthful acold is wrapping up successful the Central Valley. Folks recovered chill ways to bushed the heat. One mode is with a brace of skates connected the crystal astatine Gateway Ice Center.

“This is the champion spot to beryllium each summertime long, whether it's successful the 90s, 80s, it's 50 degrees here, five-zero. You travel successful here, you spell successful shorts, t-shirt and bushed the vigor completely,” Fresno hockey subordinate Brian Rivera said.

It was implicit 100 degrees for astir of the day, bringing skaters of each backgrounds and accomplishment sets together.

“I’ve been skating for 2 years and a fewer months, but I'm conscionable a beginner. It’s conscionable what I bash successful my escaped clip to disconnect,” Rebeca Arevalo, who travels from Merced to skate, said.

“I've been skating for 19 years now, truthful I effort to travel erstwhile a week,” crystal skater Soz Mirza said.

Despite the boiling heat, much radical thin to deed the crystal successful winter.

“Most radical deliberation crystal skating is simply a wintertime sport. But I truly deliberation astir skaters volition archer you it's the champion to travel skating successful the summer,” Mirza said.

Despite the season, lacing up crystal skates isn’t thing folks are taking for granted.

“I'm truthful grateful we person this rink present successful the Central Valley due to the fact that each the others are beauteous acold distant from the Central Valley,” Arevalo said.

And immoderate folks are trading the crystal rink for crystal cream.

“We’re conscionable trying to bushed the vigor of August and July and conscionable stitchery and person a bully clip eating crystal cream,” Post Commander astatine American Legion Post 147 Tim Lobretto said.

Clovis' American Legion Post hosted an crystal pick societal Sunday, giving folks a saccharine enactment to chill down.

“Usually passim the twelvemonth we person meetings and are doing our unpaid activities successful the assemblage that we don't person a accidental to conscionable beryllium down and unbend with each other,” American Legion Auxiliary Melissa Griggs said.

But whether you’re enjoying rocky roadworthy crystal pick oregon fig crystal skating is your thing, staying retired of the vigor is key.

“Hopefully it doesn't get worse due to the fact that we ever get to that 110 and that's beauteous bad,” Arevalo said.