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Wooster July maximum: 81.8 degrees
Wooster July minimum: 60.3 degrees
Wooster July Mean: 71.1 degrees
These temperatures are from 1961-1990. I remember one summer some years ago where the July maximum was 78 degrees. It was nice for mowing the lawn; outdoor swimming pool attendance tanked that year.
I would want a mean air temperature of at least 80 degrees.
I live in Tennessee. Typically, the waterparks and similar public swimming holes roll up the carpet around Labor Day. I went swimming in a local deepwater lake on 10/9. I think that was a Sunday. After that, we had several cold snaps and other bad weather that made swimming no longer possible.
How late have you been able to swim in unheated, natural bodies of water in your local area?
Over in much of coastal California, the answer is "almost never!" Even during the summer the ocean water seldom rises above 72 degrees--even down south in San Diego! 75 degrees is what most would call very marginal for swimming.
The local creeks dry completely up every summer, and most reservoirs don't allow swimming.
The water was in the high 50s or the air temp was in the high 50s? You must be some polar bear if the water was in the high 50s; even if the air temp was in the high 50s you must be mighty used to the cold unless you're dipping into a jacuzzi.
Last time I went full swimming in Lake Superior was mid-September. I did kayak in mid-October with an open top kayak and got half soaked. Water temps are unsafe now.
We stop swimming in outdoor bodies of water in August. By September the temperature can drop enough that we see snow. The creeks and rivers around us are all snow runoff, so they stay mighty cold, until July. Maybe June if it's a really warm year. So we have a short swimming time frame.
Lake Erie when I lived in Ohio: Last week of September/Early October, I remember going in a couple times
Florida: Year round, really. I've been in the ocean at some point during every month of the year.
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