Seawater temperature

cobham · 02-07-2015 5:24pm #1

Is there a website where daily sea temps are recorded? I did a first swim of year in sea yesterday and found it a tad cold at 15 degree... apparently one degree warmer than yesterday which was hottest day of year etc. Lifeguard said the temps were lower this year for time of year.

Tony H · 02-07-2015 5:37pm

cobham wrote: »

Is there a website where daily sea temps are recorded? I did a first swim of year in sea yesterday and found it a tad cold at 15 degree... apparently one degree warmer than yesterday which was hottest day of year etc. Lifeguard said the temps were lower this year for time of year.

http://www.seatemperature.org/europe/ireland/cork.htm

The water has taken a long time to warm up this year , I normally start in may and found it too cold then ,my wife laughs at me tip toeing in , she swims all year round without a wetsuit and she said this year the water was cold for way longer than normal .

cobham · 02-07-2015 5:42pm

Yes it was too cold to stay in long enough to make the swim worthwhile. Normally I give it half a minute and then am grand but this time the burning feel on skin stayed the whole time I was in. High tide at lunchtme on a sunless day did not help.... have swum on evening tide at same spot when water lukewarm (two years ago).

cobham · 02-07-2015 5:45pm

Thanks for website link. This is bit for where I go at Seapoint, Dublin
http://www.seatemperature.org/europe/ireland/monkstown.htm

mad m · 02-07-2015 10:02pm

cobham wrote: »

Thanks for website link. This is bit for where I go at Seapoint, Dublin
http://www.seatemperature.org/europe/ireland/monkstown.htm

Those temps are balmy!:)

Freddio · 03-07-2015 9:00pm

mad m wrote: »

Those temps are balmy!:)

Warm enough to go wandering off for 5 minutes in the middle of a race anyway !

mad m · 03-07-2015 9:19pm

Freddio wrote: »

Warm enough to go wandering off for 5 minutes in the middle of a race anyway !

At least you have an excuse, I do it all the time.

Freddio · 04-07-2015 9:38pm

mad m wrote: »

At least you have an excuse, I do it all the time.

I see you got vets today. Well done. Clearly not wandering around the scenic route!

mad m · 04-07-2015 10:04pm

One of those swims Freddio, got into a nice rhythm.,but I suspect some were holding back for tomorrow's race! Probably see you there.

You got team btw(men's).

Kurt_Godel · 05-07-2015 8:14pm

mad m wrote: »

but I suspect some were holding back for tomorrow's race!

Looks that way alright!:D Congrats

Freddio · 05-07-2015 8:37pm

mad m wrote: »

One of those swims Freddio, got into a nice rhythm.,but I suspect some were holding back for tomorrow's race! Probably see you there.

You got team btw(men's).

Congratulations ! I see your nemesis was on your heels today

biomed32 · 08-07-2015 7:59am

Been swimming skins in the open water since April, if anything i'm finding that the temperatures are warming up quite quickly now its gone from the 8/9 degrees to around 13/14 which is lovely. Not being overly familiar with the trend in water temperatures over the course of the swimming season my assumption (correct me if im wrong) is that the temperatures wont go much higher then 16/17?

Doeshedare · 08-07-2015 8:58am

This buoy tweets every 15 minutes:
https://twitter.com/dublinbaybuoy
I think 16 is about as high as it gets though it hit 17 one day last August

And you can get all geeky with the data here:
http://cilpublic.cil.ie/MetOcean/MetOcean.aspx

MojoMaker · 10-07-2015 11:20am

Have to say the sea is lovely right now. Any warmer and wetsuit swimming anything over 750m would be a pain in the a$$. Found it uncomfortably warm in a wetsuit after 20 mins in Kilkee a few weeks ago. Sounds mad, but I felt I was sweating in the suit so crack on!

cjt156 · 14-07-2015 10:02am

12 degrees in Howth for the Escape from Ireland this weekend. Still scrotum-tightening [(C) James Joyce] but grand once you're moving.

munchkin_utd · 30-07-2015 4:36pm

14degrees at Galway and Dingle is fairly chilly.

Is there a similar website for lake temperatures by any chance ? I cant find a thing except historical papers on measurements related to reports on polution.

I also found this in my search : "For people not used to cold water (temperature under 15 °C), sudden immersion is associated with two problems, either of which may result in death from drowning." which would only confirm my belief that irish waters really arent designed to be swam in at the best of times .

MojoMaker · 03-08-2015 11:12am

If you think 14C is cold you should eat more.

14C is positively balmy.

6C is cold.

mad m · 03-08-2015 6:39pm

Seapoint on Saturday had a bit of a snip in it. Wicklow yesterday was like soup. Killiney today was grand.

snowstreams · 01-09-2015 9:34pm

At what temperature do you need to wear earplugs to stop surfers ear(bone growths in ears)?Or do you all wear earplugs all the time?
I never swim in temperatures below 12c myself though.

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