Water Conditions
Øresund is a shallow sea which alouds rather fast temperature risings, when air temperatures permits. Possible bathing season is between mid May and mid September. However to reach fairly good bathing temperatures (of at least +18C or higher) in the afternoons, air temperature needs to be above +25C for about a week in May, while just a few days of heat is enough in August. During longer heat waves, water temperatures often rises above +22 C during the period of late June until early September. The water quality is usually very good. All local outlets to Øresund has been thoroughly cleaned and disinfected since the 1970s (this applies to the Swedish part of Øresund as well). Water salinity is highly depending of the current. With northbound current (from the Baltic Sea) salinity may drop down a bit below 10 PCU (1.0% by weight), but with southbound current (from Cattegat) salinity rises to above 25 PCU, not so far from the northern Atlantic salinity of 30-33 PCU. (Eastbound and westbound currents cannot occur in Øresund, with very local exceptions only. The daily tides are not notable but unregular, wheather dependant, water level differences do exist. During the winter ice problems are very rare.)
Read more about this topic: Amager Strandpark
Famous quotes containing the words water and/or conditions:
“I think of the nestling fallen into the deep grass,
The turtle gasping in the dusty rubble of the highway,
The paralytic stunned in the tub, and the water rising,—
All things innocent, hapless, forsaken.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
“No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)