We had a week on the Norfolk Broads that year...........The only week it rained!!!!
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Thu Feb 04, 2016 6:39 pm ] |
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No wife, No kids, just sunburn and my pit overalls on it Quote: The 1976 United Kingdom heat wave led to the hottest summer average temperature in the UK since records began. At the same time, the country suffered a severe drought. It was one of the driest, sunniest and warmest summers (June/July/August) in the 20th century, although 1995 is now regarded as the driest. Only a few places registered more than half their average summer rainfall. In the CET record, it was the warmest summer in that series. It was the warmest summer in the Aberdeen area since at least 1864. It was the driest summer since 1868 in Glasgow.
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| Author: | Nidge2 [ Thu Feb 04, 2016 7:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 40 years............ |
wannabeeahack wrote: No wife, No kids, just sunburn and my pit overalls on it Quote: The 1976 United Kingdom heat wave led to the hottest summer average temperature in the UK since records began. At the same time, the country suffered a severe drought. It was one of the driest, sunniest and warmest summers (June/July/August) in the 20th century, although 1995 is now regarded as the driest. Only a few places registered more than half their average summer rainfall. In the CET record, it was the warmest summer in that series. It was the warmest summer in the Aberdeen area since at least 1864. It was the driest summer since 1868 in Glasgow. Remember it well. |
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| Author: | cabbyman [ Thu Feb 04, 2016 7:50 pm ] |
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We had a week on the Norfolk Broads that year...........The only week it rained!!!!
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| Author: | edders23 [ Thu Feb 04, 2016 10:24 pm ] |
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spent a lot of that summer by the school swimming pool 
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| Author: | Nidge2 [ Fri Feb 05, 2016 1:17 pm ] |
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edders23 wrote: spent a lot of that summer by the school swimming pool Same here, we were swimming in the local outdoor pool which is sadly not there anymore. Council cuts and the dreaded EU. |
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| Author: | roythebus [ Fri Feb 05, 2016 1:53 pm ] |
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I used to run a mobile disco in those days, doing an outdoor gig it was so hot the records melted and distorted as soon as I put them on the turntable! then one of the speakers overheated and seized up which in turn blew the power amp, so we had a quiet party! |
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| Author: | MarcusM [ Sun Feb 07, 2016 9:44 pm ] |
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Spent that summer working night shift in a frozen pea factory. Worked the tenderometer and graded the incoming trucks of peas from Birds Eye's Best through Fine Fare and Liptons to bowling balls and then weapons of mass destruction. Spent every night in shorts and a tea shirt and every day when I got up just the same. Old enough to work nights but not old enough to blow it down the pub so bought myself a tidy camera when the summer finally ended. |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Mon Feb 08, 2016 6:28 pm ] |
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What I remember about 1976, apart from it being hot, was the millions and millions of ladybirds. And how good it was being a kid near the seaside. |
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