76 heatwave

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

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 ?

I just remembered

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

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.

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.

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

I Remember th Ponds on Blackheath Drying up..

Blackheath was my regular watering hole back in 76,

The 3 Tuns ..

Foxy