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Nearest beach to me is the seafront here in Bugibba,(a 5 minute walk from my house), though it is mostly rocky, there is a small beach... Temperature here today reached a high of 32.6C & the sea temperature is 26C...
The nearest proper sandy beach is a couple of miles away in Mellieha...
Mellieha beach from the air...
I love aerial photos like that. I would love to jump off a boat in the harbor and swim down to the bottom. Gotta love the Med.
Do they serve great food on that beach like they did when I was in Barcelona? Love calamari with marinara sauce, and potatoes aioli.
I had a physics professor in college, Dr. Mifsud, and he was a native of Malta. He always talked about home. I remember he had dark curly hair, olive skin, and green eyes. Looked kind of Arabic or Italian. Malta always intrigued me since then. He was a great guy and not a ballbuster like some physics profs can be.
I love aerial photos like that. I would love to jump off a boat in the harbor and swim down to the bottom. Gotta love the Med.
Do they serve great food on that beach like they did when I was in Barcelona? Love calamari with marinara sauce, and potatoes aioli.
I had a physics professor in college, Dr. Mifsud, and he was a native of Malta. He always talked about home. I remember he had dark curly hair, olive skin, and green eyes. Looked kind of Arabic or Italian. Malta always intrigued me since then. He was a great guy and not a ballbuster like some physics profs can be.
They do serve food, anything from burger & chips to slightly more upmarket cuisine... Though I will normally just have some gelato
Have swum there every month from April to November, this summer the water has definitely been the warmest since 2006. You have to pay to park on the prom but certainly not to go on the beach! That is unthinkable to us Brits, even accustomed as we are to gratuitous rip offs (TV LICENCE!)
That comment about dry summer climates in Britain- there aren't any. I think it was Southsea or Portsmouth that got posted on here posing as a Csb: that area has a microclimate where the winters are those of the SW but summers those of the SE, and the 81-10 average is skewed by a number of abnormally wet, mild winters between about 1990 and 2007, plus the more frequent good summers of the late 80s and 90s.
Okanagan Lake, 1 km to the north, and Skaha Lake, 3 km to the south.
Okanagan Lake Beach (Penticton):
Skaha Lake Beach (Penticton):
Skaha is the bigger and cleaner beach.
Weather is the same as Penticton as it's in Penticton.. about the same temperature as the airport as the airport gets the same lake breezes. Water temperature I believe is around 23-24ºC in both.
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Air temperature at the moment is about 27C or 80F. Water temperatures are around 25C or mid-70s in F. This is right about normal for this time of year here.
There are also dozens of beaches bigger than these in the hills and forests all around the city.
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Oh yeah, and I forgot. Access to all of the beaches near here is free. In a few cases you may have to pay for parking. These two city beaches have free parking and access though. You can also get there by bike or bus of course.
Have swum there every month from April to November, this summer the water has definitely been the warmest since 2006. You have to pay to park on the prom but certainly not to go on the beach! That is unthinkable to us Brits, even accustomed as we are to gratuitous rip offs (TV LICENCE!)
That comment about dry summer climates in Britain- there aren't any. I think it was Southsea or Portsmouth that got posted on here posing as a Csb: that area has a microclimate where the winters are those of the SW but summers those of the SE, and the 81-10 average is skewed by a number of abnormally wet, mild winters between about 1990 and 2007, plus the more frequent good summers of the late 80s and 90s.
Nice. Do you swim with a wetsuit in April and November? I would think the water would be very cool then.
What is the temp of the sea there now?
I live in a seaside resort city.
Typical July-August weather is sunny, breezy and 29°C with high relative humidity. Water temperatures around 25-26°C.
This is an aerial view of the beach, filled with coloured sun umbrellas:
That comment about dry summer climates in Britain- there aren't any. I think it was Southsea or Portsmouth that got posted on here posing as a Csb: that area has a microclimate where the winters are those of the SW but summers those of the SE, and the 81-10 average is skewed by a number of abnormally wet, mild winters between about 1990 and 2007, plus the more frequent good summers of the late 80s and 90s.
No one claimed Southsea has a Csb climate. It does indeed have winters as mild as the far SW of the UK & summer temperatures are almost as hot as the rest of the SE, it is the sunniest part of the UK too (the coastal resorts of Hampshire, Sussex & the I.O.W according to the Met Office) & the south coast is actually the only part of the UK that has an appreciable difference in rainfall in the summer (again from the Met Office)...
Southsea doesn't even have 81-10 averages, as the weather station was closed in 2006. The averages are worked out from the last 30 year period the station was open (1976-2005), plenty of rubbish summers & cold winters within those years... And if the averages were worked from 81-10 data does that mean every other data set of weather stations in the UK are also "skewed" & give an unrepresentative view of the climate there??
There was a "Top 10" warmest parts of the UK in a newspaper some years ago & using the 1960-1990 averages & apart from London, the Scilly Isles & Jersey & Guernsey (not even technically in the UK) Southsea came in with an annual mean as warm as Penzance...
Nearest sea beaches are on north-eastern and south-western coast of Estonia, they are equally about 200 km to drive from me and are right now warm-25.8c water temperature in that NE one-it also has the most beautiful and longest sand area in Estonia.
There is also a lake in my small town which has a small sandy area and also some other lakes in a distance of 10km from my town. But I like of course to visit seaside more than a lake and try to visit seaside as much as possible.
Woops might have been me who said Portsmouth has a csb climate, I meant cfb
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