I'm Sure It's a Repeat of the Summer of 1976

I was working at Butlins in North Wales in the summer of 76 and I remember it well and I think the spells of hot weather we have had recently are a lot hotter…
It was 50 years ago though, so obviously climate change has progressed…

My bbc weather app says drizzle on friday in the brighton area. But the bbc weather man says no rain. If i leave all the cushions and throws out its bound to rain.

SillyNanny321

Where is the expected rain going to be? I’m feeling really jealous as my weather app forecast rain for Thursday, Friday & Saturday. Now nothing but hot & sunny for next 10 days. How the weeds have the cheek to grow we do not know.

We were forecast rain in London at the end of this week a few days ago but now the forecast is showing sunshine again.
We desperately need rain. The trees in the park are losing their leaves already due to distress because of the heat and no rain and the grass is turning to dust.
Is anyone getting rain or forecast to get it??

My forecast for the next few days, but obviously not 100% reliable…

I'm praying for rain as our moors are burning and its devastating to see.The poor firefighters in this weather battling it-and all started by fireworks being set off in tribute to a young lad who sadly drowned in the resevoir. What a way to honour him

This is our forecast

My sons were 6 and 3 in the summer of 1976. In the paddling pool nearly every day.

I've pictures of them looking very happy and as brown as berries wearing only their shorts as they did every day. We had a great holiday in a caravan in Devon in 1976 with 2 friends and their 2 boys. Every day sunny for a fortnight. [Never since!]

Now both sons are in their shorts every day again, but complaining loudly about the heat. And 50 years older!

You all look back to 1976, but I remember 1980 and 1990 or 92 as being just as hot and one 90s summers was so dry the earth cracked before the rain came at the end of August.

I had our second daughter in April 1976, I was thirty, and I loved that summer with a newborn and a three year old. The heat didn’t bother any of us. Moving on fifty years and I’m really struggling! Apparently old bodies need a lot more energy to regulate their core temperature, which would explain my lethargy. That’s my excuse for doing as little as possible.

I spent a month in St Malo in the summer of 76 on a French language course. Lessons in the morning, beach in the afternoon, plus several excursions laid on. It was dry and sunny, but not quite as hot as the UK. Happy times.

We moved house on the day it rained in September 1976!!

Usedtobeblonde

I remember 76 so well and have said to family that this summer reminds me of that one.
It broke on a Saturday evening in September with a terrific thunderstorm.
We were having a fundraiser party in three gardens , we had taken the fence panels down between the gardens to make a large space and late in the evening the storm broke spectacularly.

I remember when that storm broke and we were with friends in Battersea and all ran out in the pouring rain and danced in the street!!

Not in Scotland that's for sure! 1976 wad a scorcherup hete! 😄. Loved it

A very dear friend died June 6 1976 and the poppies were absolutely everywhere. His mum said it looks like it will be a long summer, little did she know.

Was in my mid twenties in 1976, working in a secondary school in South East London. We had saved enough to own a Masionette in Sydenham after living with my DHs parents. We spent every evening and weekend stripping wallpaper and painting walls, happy days.

my 3rd baby was born November 76, I remember that hot summer.

A memorable year. My son and daughter were 5 and 4 years old and we spent time picking strawberries at a local farm.

I was 20 and had a lovely holiday in Bournemouth with a friend in June 1976 and a wonderful holiday romance (didn’t last after holiday) and met my DH in Sept 1976 and we married in the July 1977. It lasted and our 50th anniversary next July ❤️

I had my varicose veins stripped in early summer 1976. Then I had to wear thick compression stockings for the next 3 months and walk at least 3 miles a day. I achieved the latter by walking to and from work and walking my children to and from school. I wore long cotton skirts to hide the stockings and they surprisingly were quite cooling causing a draught up my legs.

Padstow13

The most awful thing about 1976 was seeing lush green grass gradually turning to beige/brown straw. So unlovely at the height of Summer.

I was just going to say I remember every one’s lawn looking like hay.
Our grass today is very green, no sign of it going yellow yet.

Casdon

I look back very happily at the summer of 76, I was still a teenager, and full of the joys of spring, I had a really great summer and was sad when it eventually rained. I wish I still had half that energy!

Me too. I remember bopping around to the bay city rollers on our lawn.
I also don’t remember not being able to sleep, unlike today 😩🥵

37 degrees here today, but as we live in California, we are pretty acclimated.

I was expecting baby no 3, things went wrong and I spent from July to September in hospital whilst my poor mum coped with two small girls.

Early days of pregnancy with DD1 and we spent 3 weeks in Corfu where the locals said how cold a summer they were having. So we mostly missed the heatwave here. We came back very brown but it wasnt as hot there as I had expected that year.
Mother in law stayed to feed our cat while we were away. She must have been very hot in our small house, but I wasnt very sympathetic in those days! I know how she must have felt now.

Our grass is like hay today, but the weeds still grow! The lavender is the best I have ever seen it flower wise, but is very dry stemmed. And hardly any bees when normally it is smothered.

It's called summer, no need to panic, it will be gone in a month people bok holidays abroad to get sun and heat, yet when we have a good summer it's moan moan moan