Merry Christmas and happy Holidays from the great white north of Michigan, USA. We had snow for Christmas, and a few wet and cold days. We have awesome beaches too, with no jelly fish or sharks, unfortunately like yours they are unswimable this time of year; but unlike yours it is because the liquid water is slowly doing it's yearly transformation into the solid form. Not a lot of beach goers when the water is 32, but the ice fishers and snow mobiles come out once it freezes over.