POOL season is well and truly with us after the hottest October on average across all local, state and national levels.
Outdoor swimming pools across the municipality — in Manangatang, Nyah, Robinvale and Swan Hill — are expected to open this weekend and operate until the end of March.
With the Swan Hill Outdoor Pool managed by the Swan Hill Leisure Centre, duty manager Nathan Hoare said “lots of people” were already calling in asking when it will open.
“We’re starting to get a few more numbers in the indoor pool as well,” he said.
The opening of the pool couldn’t come at a better time for Swan Hill locals after they experienced their hottest October month on record.
The Swan Hill Aerodrome recorded a mean daily maximum (the hottest temperature of the day) of 30.2 degrees Celsius last month, smashing its previous highest October daily maximum average of 27.8 degrees.
The figure, more than six degrees above Swan Hill’s long term October average of 24 degrees, replicated state and national trends where the maximum temperature anomalies (the differences between the current mean temperature and the long term mean temperature) were the highest ever on record.
For Mr Hoare, it’s been a good lead up to pool season.
“The days have been really good in the lead up to the summer,” Mr Hoare said.
“Last season we didn’t have a really good summer because it wasn’t as hot as we’d hoped it would be, but so far it’s been really hot.”
