vision2020@moscow.com: Re: Moscow's proposed swimming pool

Re: Moscow's proposed swimming pool

Ron Force (rforce@uidaho.edu)
Mon, 23 Mar 1998 08:36:36 -0800

Kathleen Warren wrote:
>
> Has anyone ever recorded the average days each year the Ghormley pool was
> open over, say two decades? Having lived here for 35 years now, I have seen
> too many cold summer days when the pool was standing empty, lifeguards were
> let go, and children and adults who wanted to swim (or even continue
> swimming lessons) had plans canceled because of clouds, rain, and wind.

Dennis Baird researched the number of days that the temperature was 80
degrees or above over the last ten years. The low was 19 days in 1993.
The point he tried to make was that over the last ten years, the local
weather has become more variable, and that two years of '93 weather
back-to-back would be a problem for pool economics. He also thinks that
the selected site is in a "frost pocket" which makes the temperature
situation worse.

Maybe he or Lynn will post his figures.

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