(Cousin to the diving board thread, and one of a series of summer activity threads…)
The pool at my complex is running 90-95 degrees. That’s a hot tub, not a pool. I know that older folks like warm water, but this is ridiculous! I’d prefer it at 80-85, tops. How can anyone feel refreshed jumping into water warmer than ambient air temperature?
When you jump into a pool, do you want it cool? Or would you prefer a nice warm, big bathtub?
Depends… 
on what you wasn’t to do i it …I was a competitive swimmer for my formative years…racing pools run around 69-72 deg F…pleasure pools, if not heated, fluctuate with the season and temperature…
hope this helps,
tsfr
Warm! Seriously warm! I won’t touch it under 86. I had to quit a swimming class in grad school because the pool was sixty. five. degrees! I never stopped shivering.
Where are you from? In my experience, Southerners like a nice warm pool. We once had an Austrian tour guide in Europe who, when we went by some of those very popular lakes in northern Italy, told us proudly that it’s very warm, 55 degrees?
We were all “… Fahrenheit?”
Oh - perhaps the difference is, 90 IS refreshing when it’s 108 in the sun.
I usually only jump in the pool to do laps. Cooler is better for me.
There was one time last year they jacked the temperature up, probably for the noodlers. Must’ve been a bit over 90. I could actually feel the sweat beading and rolling off me as I swam. That really, really sucked. It reminded me of running outside in sunny 95 degree weather.
Edit: actually, worse than that. At least running in sunny 95 degree weather I get some sort of cooling breeze effect. This was like being stewed.
The pool has to be a minumum of 80 degrees before my wife will go in. My kids will go in if it’s 65 or above - they seem to be impervious to cold! I think all of them consider 85 or above to be the best. We have too much shade, so it rarely gets warmer than 85-90 degrees.