09/01/2025
Another Cold Swim on a beautiful morning . Water temp avg 4.8c and Air temp -2c . Sore Fingers time
🥶 . I just want to give some info on the current cold temperatures in the area of Tralee to Fenit in Tralee Bay . I have marked the areas on the map . Currently ..The Basin , The Canal , The Wetlands and parts of The River are frozen over with ice . They flow into The Bay along with rivers at Derrymore , The Spa and Kilfenora .
The bay down as far as Fenit is mainly very shallow with only 4 to 5 foot of water on a full tide in most areas . And these are the keys to our very cold water ( and conversely in summer our warmer water ) . It follows ground temperature rather than sea temperatures much like a lake . The ground is currently 0c. So the water we would swim in at The Spa or Fenit is currently very cold . There would be variations of 0.5c in either direction . For safety reasons we swim along by the shore in winter so these are our actual swimming temps .
The average temperatures are taken at a depth 1 to 3 feet below the water surface and are consistent at different areas .
