76 heatwave

[Spartacus]

Are we about to break the 1976 heatwave record?

What's your memory of 76 ?

Mine is standpipes and cracked earth where it was so dry

[Mystic Mog]

Mine is heatstroke and the invasion of ladybirds!

[Twoddle]

Hosepipe bans and playing outside. Man Utd lost to Southampton in the FA cup final that year 0 - 1, Bobby Stokes the scorer.

[Drxyster]

Clay at corner of our house dried out so badly, we required our home to be underpinned. Not a single problem since,"Fingers Crossed" !!!!!!

[teddyboy23]

You poor old people : :lol: :

[IlonaM]

Great fun as a child - seem to remember hosepipe bans, but my grandfather filled up a small tub big enough to dunk me in occasionally in the garden.

[Spartacus]

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You poor old people : :lol: :

 

In 40 years time TB, you will be posting about the 22 heatwave and kids will be laughing at you :o

I wonder how many from this youthful generation would cope if 76 problems happened again or would the find walking to a standpipe or saving water by bathing with a friend (had its ups and downs :lol: ) too much and demand government action to turn the sun down ?

[OutOfFocus]

Boiling on top of mountain in Lake District

[teddyboy23]

40yrs Jesus 78 yes old

[Nigello]

The heat was high and relentless over weeks, not a few days, in 1976. I doubt this heatwave will last more than six days though the highs will likely be higher than back then

[Spartacus]

I just remembered

The tarmac on some roads softened and huge tracks appeared where cars and lorries drove along it

[val]

working in office with no air con

[Spartacus]

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The heat was high and relentless over weeks, not a few days, in 1976. I doubt this heatwave will last more than six days though the highs will likely be higher than back then

 

Apparently (source bbc news) it was 15 consecutive days where the temperature was 32 degrees or higher.

[Angelina]

Happy days - long summers. Great time to be a kid.

[KidKruger]

Yeah 1976, really persistent heat for ages. everything growing died. it seemed. I remember the afternoon the rain started, already had our shirts off cos of the heat, first drops were big and warm, then we stood there getting totally soaked next to the house. wasn't the final end of the hot days though, from memory.

[Sue]

Pushing my small daughter in a buggy around a city in the baking heat was the worst thing for me.

I really pity pregnant women in these kinds of temperatures.

[dresswaves]

The year of my A levels. Remember the teachers bringing round jugs of orange squash as we took our exams. This is in the days before everyone carried a bottle of water.

[Pugwash]

My then partner and our 3 year old daughter dad booked a self catering holiday in Somerset( Burnham on Sea?) We had rain and clouds for the whole week - my family could not believe it - they had sun.

[Spartacus]

I'm still waiting for the first hosepipe bans

[malumbu]

We had a wet half term in South Wales and returned from Devon on the last Saturday of August when the weather broke. In-between not a drop of rain

We were allowed to take our ties off at school. Most of us brought in a bottle of squash that was frozen overnight. So from my memory nonsense to say school kids didn't carry water.

No memories of plagues of ladybirds. We didn't have a hosepipe ban but father did his bit as we used bath or sink water to flush the toilet.

I hadn't discovered rock music but started to show an interest in the opposite gender

It was nowhere as hot as it is now

[malumbu]

Oh and I visited family in London passing a straw yellow Hyde Park with dozens of couples canoodling, public displays of affection seemed far more intimate than nowadays!

[Twoddle]

The ladybird invasion rings a bell, back when we had grass for a front garden.

[Alec1]

I would have been 11, but we lived on the west coast of Scotland. It was still hot even there, and I do remember the tarmac was very soft. As kids, we spent a lot of time in the water of Loch Etive, which was about 10 mins walk.

[DulwichFox]

I Remember th Ponds on Blackheath Drying up..

Blackheath was my regular watering hole back in 76,

The 3 Tuns ..

Foxy

[Ladygooner]

Skinny dipping in Wraysbury gravel pits after the pubs shut