anyone know of a website which publishes the current temperature of the swimming areas of the Zürichsee? ...and has anyone been in yet this year?

Zürisee's about 18 or 19° now. Fresh but bearable. Katzensee's about 22°. Fab.

this websites lists all outdoor pool areas, lake and river swimming areas, it gives water temperatures, times of opening etc..

http://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/internet...immbaeder.html

"Strandbad Wollishofen: Wassertemperatur - 14 °C"
Katzensee it is, then

wiewarm.ch - das schweizer badi-portal

Has similar info for the rest of Switzerland.

20min will change mountain temps to badi temps on the weather page sometime soon too.

Rather than start a new thread ...

for those that want to swim in the Aare, heres all the info, is a bracing 13.5°c today, was 16°c when I popped my 2007 cherry on Saturday.

aaremarzili.info - Startseite

I started at the Türlersee, two weeks ago, but the water already was 19°!

I swam in the Zuerichsee yesterday which was 17C at the Ruschlikon strandbad. Cold but very refreshing

yep, and if you have an apple mac, they also have a widget.

havent taken the plunge yet, but threatening too soon.

i was half into the limmate yesterday, but at 15 deg it was too cold for me.

which widget would that be then?

the Boxing Day Dip widget

Great pic! Who's the honey?

sorry to dissapoint, but is a stock photo from Bern Tourismus .... must say that the warm weather is bringing the quality out ......

it is a widget published by wiewarm.ch which sits on your dashboard and gives constant updates about swiss lake temperatures.

i found it on apple.com under the widget download section, then under "international".

krlock3

according to meteo its only about 12C now
http://www.meteonews.ch/index.php?se...n&sub=06664000

I went in on sunday and wednesday and it is definately warming up and possible to stay in for 10 minutes or so (without hypothermia so far)

Cool, time to get the Canoe out again Türlersee is over the back of my place. But won't use the 'rip-off' camping parking.

http://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/internet...ythenquai.html

This page provides (almost) real time water and air temperature and plots. Today water temperature (at the surface) has risen from 13° to 15° which is pretty amazing.

There must be something wrong with the webcam though since there's not a single cloud in the sky.

Well I guess the whole point of expensive parking is to deter a lot of traffic. I just hope you won't park your car illegaly on some wanderweg.

There is Free parking at the other end of the lake. Usually quite busy though.

Just have to sort out the method of transporting the canoe as it's big and heavy (double - sit on top from Ocean kayak). I have a windsurf/canoe trolley but does not work very well on this, so have to make some adjustments or make something else.