We also had 80s yesterday and below freezing (29 degrees) expected tonight. My pool is uncovered. Was covered in the fall, but my two golden retrievers chewed through the vinyl cord tying the cover down and it fell into the pool back in October. Dumped a lot of leaves and green water off the cover into the water. Shocked the heck out of my pool and decided not to bother with trying to put the cover back on since most of the leaves had already fallen from the trees by that point. Since my pool is uncovered and we are getting lots of warm days, went ahead and hooked up the pump/filter last weekend. Otherwise, I would have been risking an algae bloom. Anxious for the pool to get warm enough to swim - but we are a ways off from that. Current water temps are probably in the low 60s.
Here are a few pics of my pool after the cover fell in and a day later after the miracle cure (bleach!) was added. Gotta love that stuff! The dark spot you see in the middle of the second picture is a big pile of leaves that I had not yet scooped out. At that point, I was just concerned with getting rid of the green. Scooping the leaves out was taken care of a few days later. What a pain that was!
Unpredictable spring weather
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