Water Temp

[CarlD]

I am busy trying to lower the temp on my pool, since it hit 98 yesterday!

[les_smith]

I am busy trying to lower the temp on my pool, since it hit 98 yesterday!

Hey CarlD, I'm assuming you mean the air temperature and not the water temperature. If that's the case, I'll trade. We've been hitting 100+ for weeks now. But, we may be a little more used to it. Our pool water hit 94 and running the fountain at night (temps in the low 80s at night) has keep the pool at 90 which is doable, but not preferred. How about a 500 lb block of ice that we could swim with, wouldn't that be fun.

[CarlD]

Nope. Last night the air was about 85 deg, 99% humidity. The pool water was 98 deg, and, of course, 100% humidity!

This morning it was down to 92/93. Yeah, the water is THAT warm!

I'm running the solar panels at night and turning them off during the day.

[sailork]

shippy1973 I bought a second set of trippers for my intermatic timer and I run the pump twice a day. My theory is to let the extremely hot water on the surface sit there in the evening for as long as possible before I run the pump. The very hot water surface will radiate heat much faster than the cooler surface after I run the pump so I get more heat loss. On the other hand I have to mix in the bleach so I have the pump kick on at 8 or 9 and run for a few hours. One side benefit is that I find myself swimming around in the pool instead of watching TV and drinking beer..

I also liked the fan idea, it's usually very still around here in the evenings. I'll have to look into that. I've got a second timer, I suppose I could put some kind of outdoor blower on it. Has anybody tried this?

[VOLDADDY]

Well, I put the coolers on my pool Thursday night and had 91 degree water. Yesterday, it came a strong storm. Today, my pool is a brisk and wonderfully refreshing 82 degrees. I'm not sure how much can be attributed to the rain, as I know it did help, but these pool coolers do seem to work very well. If you have a problem with hot water I say give them a try. I would absolutely buy them again.

[geordie]

I like the pool 85+ but this summer I've actually been trying to cool mine. Yesterday morning the surface temp was finally 78, but by the time I got home from work it was back up to 84. I couldn't believe it when the pool hit 92 last week (second time in six years). It doesn't feel good at all during the day, but it is kind of nice if you go out and swim late at night. Most of the last two weeks I was swimming near midnight with the pool around 90 and the air temp around 80-85. Very strange for Iowa, but I don't think I'll complain since the last two years I was struggling to keep the water above 80 much of the summer.

I take the thermometer out in the late summer when the nights start to cool (after July 29 here, normally) and the kids are used to really warm water. If my teens SEE the temp is 80 they will say it is too cold, but if they don't have the thermometer to look at they will swim down to about 77 before they mention it.