ZURICH - Weekday evenings at Mythenquai already looked like mid-July. Water temperatures rose. Lifeguards said they were not July temperatures, and that the difference is how people get into trouble.

City officials like a full badi because it is a pressure valve. Neighbours like it less when bicycles block the path until 21:00.

A summer that started early

The May opening note is here. July's heat file will tell whether this was a spike or a season.