This is my first year building a rink in Central Mass and have learned most of the issues discussed in this forum first-hand. From adding height after filling started, to filling too soon with 5"of falling during the latter part of the filling process this has been quite the learning experience. The ice is starting to shape-up with approx. 2/3 of the 32' x 48' rink fairly smooth and skatable. Enough of the background, my question:

The weather forecast starting mid next week is for temperatures for three days near 40 with nighttime temps in the low 30's. Any thoughts on what I should expect from this temperature change. Anything that I should do eforehand and what is the best way to recover (if temperatures cooperate).

Not much you can do, really. And actually, since many of us (I'm in NH) have some bumps due to those early storms, the warm weather may help us out by melting the surface a bit. I'd actually welcome exactly one day in the 50's, just to let everything puddle up and then harden again.

bout the only thing you can do is hope that it freezes quickly again and that you don't have much snow before it does freeze. we're expecting 40's and 50's here in NE indiana and then snow as it turns colder. so i'm sure my rink will be a slushy mess. which really is aggravating too since my rink froze as smooth as glass and looks amazing right now. oh well, nobody ever said this addiction was easy.

My suggestion, which is exactly what I did last night, clean off any snow before the warm weather hits and skate on it as much as possible. May as well enjoy it while you got it! Basically as long as it doesn't get too warm,the nights are still relatively cold and you have a decent thickness of ice, you should easily make it through 4-5 days of warm weather.