Here's a thought. If you can get one of those portable tarp garages and place it so it will shade your pool, that will well.
There are some cooling methods, that involve aeration or night time sprays, or reverse use of solar heating units (running them at night, when temps are below pool temps) but you have to be a tinkerer. In any case, they aren't really practical with an Intex.
The shade will work, however.
Another method -- but you can NOT, must NOT, use it when swimmers are in the pool! -- is to set up a sump pump with a 3/4 PVC riser to spray water up out of the pool and let it fall back. Actually, you can probably work pretty well with a 10' piece of pipe, and appropriate adapters on the submerged end. Generally, turbulence in the outflow from the straight cut PVC pipe will generate a large drop type spray that will all land back into your pool. Running this at NIGHT, when air temps are below pool temps will produce some cooling. A decent pump (that won't leak oil into the pool!!) plus extension cords (full size) plus a GFCI safety unit will set you back $150 - 200. And, you probably need a 10 degree differential between water temps and air temps to do much good.
But do NOT leave that pump in an occupied pool. And do not run it during the day; you could kill somebody! Plus, you'll lose a lot of water to evaporation and possibly also heat your pool!
Even at night, how you use it depends on your location and local night time temps. If humidity is low at night (Arizona, etc.), you will lose of water to evaporation. Around here, with night time humidity at 75% or more, you won't lose much, if you set it on a time to run between 2am and 6am. Again, be careful. If the thing flops over, you could come out to a drained pool with a burned out pump and an oily puddle in your pool. Not good!
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