It is snowing in May. We opened our pool a week ago and have it looking great. Clear, sparkly, balanced water thanks to BBB and the Trouble Free Pool website. The weatherman says it will get down to 32 tonight and 29 tomorrow night. I will leave my new Pentair Intelliflow pump running. Is there anything else I should do to avoid damage from a freeze?
Horrible Nebraska weather
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Just keep a little water moving and you will be fine .... that may not get cold enough for long enough to cause any problem even if you did not run the pump. It takes many hours well below freezing before anything would freeze solid.
as jbliz said, you will be fine...it does not look like it will get cold enough long enough to cause any trouble.
Just out of curiosity, why are you open this early?
Just out of curiosity, why are you open this early?
It seemed like a good idea at the time. 
Yesterday it was 80 degrees. Last year at this time we were already swimming.
Yesterday it was 80 degrees. Last year at this time we were already swimming.
Dang.........still too cool to jump in here in Texas! Ok..I'm a wimp! Pool temp hit 78 today--won't last. Back down in the 40's here tomorrow night. Plum freaky.
Unless I have some work to do on the pool, I wait until 55-60F water temp before I open (I have an opaque winter cover).
Even with our unseasonably cool Spring, water temp was 56 degrees the day we opened on April 24th. On the bright side, the water was pretty clean and didn't take much effort at all to get it in shape. I wouldn't have minded not swimming for a while if I could just go out and putter around the pool. Call me strange, but I love testing, brushing and keeping it pristine. Not as much fun testing the water with a winter coat on!
I hear you on the puttering...I should have said that I wait until the pool temp is consistently 55-60F for a few days.