When you go swimming in Lake Ontario, In Hamilton at Van Wagners Beach the water is like ice and the weather has been stiffling hot the past few weeks.
2006-08-05 15:09:26 · 5 answers · asked by Elsie G 1 in Sports ➔ Swimming & Diving
It is up north and those canadians love their cold water, plus the waste coming out of the snowball making plants in canada is dumped into the lake but don't worry the waste is only cold water.
2006-08-05 15:13:44 · answer #1 · answered by Topher 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had to dive a water intake pipe about 1/4 mile away from there today. The bottom temperature was 67 F degrees at 60 feet depth. I was sweating. The surface water temp was over 70 F. It's not cold at all, a little warmer than average, actaully by a degree or so.
2006-08-05 23:03:30 · answer #2 · answered by scubabob 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water doesn't change its temperature as quickly as land does, which means that large bodies of water can moderate temperatures on the surrounding land. Therefore, Lake Ontario is cooler than the surrounding land during the summer, cooling down the areas. In the winter, the lake warms the surrounding regions because its temperature changes slower than the air temperature.
2006-08-07 21:34:16 · answer #3 · answered by WaterfallOfDestiny 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because it is so big...scientifically, it takes more energy to heat up a larger amount of water, because water is such a stability
2006-08-05 23:56:45 · answer #4 · answered by wormwoodkid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
iam not sure why
2006-08-05 22:13:57 · answer #5 · answered by stan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋