How does 2018’s heatwave compare to 1976?
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- The heatwave that hit the UK in the summer of 1976 was one of the longest in living memory, and triggered the most significant drought in 150 years.
There were 15 consecutive days when the temperature reached 32C or higher somewhere in the UK.
The Met Office has been busily crunching the numbers to see how 2018 compares so far.
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I was 14 in 1976. It was scorchingly hot. Our football fields dried out so much that the ground opened up and they were unplayable. The streams and brooks dried up everywhere. Nobody on the MSM in those days forecasting the end of life on Earth either.
I was 9 in the summer of '76, and remember well all the things we tried to do to keep cool. My primary school was a new building and built with a lot of glass. They used to send us home for the day at lunchtime as the building got too hot. We would spend the rest of the day trying to cool off in the paddling pools in our local park. I don't recall 2018 being anywhere near as bad. 🤷♂️
I also was 14 as well and it went on for 9 full weeks without a breather .
There have indeed been unusually hot summers (like in 1976) and unusually severe winters (like in 1963). The difference then was that these were rare, once in a generation events. In the last 20 years what we used to call freak weather events - whether storms, floods, fires or droughts have now become the norm and aren't confined to the UK but affect the globe. Advancing deserts (North & Central Africa) and rising sea levels are displacing mass populations. Hence the current warnings about the dire impact of climate change. Or would you be happy to accept millions of displaced people from sub-Saharan Africa and coastal regions around the world to come and live in the UK? How long would that last? We can neither afford to ignore the warnings, nor put a plaster on the problem. Its not 1963 or 1976 anymore.
@@nowhereman5119 ......people are being displaced throughout the world right now and it's not because of Climate change. The Globalists are driving African and Middle Eastern populations with a combination of false hope and fear. The Politicians and rich Elites set and drive the agenda and the Scientists are more than happy to write the horror stories. I'm nearly 60 years old, The Delta region of India has flooded every year throughout my life time, I've been in Greece where the sky burnt orange 35 years ago. We get these reports every 10 years, Armageddon has had to be put back 5 times to my knowledge. I don't doubt that we are contributing but we are also implementing technology and improved efficiency to reduce our impact. Sadly, China and India are going through their Industrial Revolution and couldn't give a fig about the rest of the world. Smashing up our economies just to feel good about ourselves is pointless if they are not willing to compromise. Every species has its day, maybe the time has come for ours.
look at the state of The Oval, 5th test E v WI
I remember 1976 the summer it was hot hot hot very hot
How old were you?
@@ajs41 20yrs
I wasn't alive then but the people who remember back then my wife does they and she told me that it was so so so hot they had to que for water as this video shows. My wife told me where she was living at the time their were ladybirds swarming in her room
Having lived through 76, I think the Met Office need to go back and check their figures. 1976 was easily hotter, sunnier and drier.
1975 was hot as well, but '76 was the big one!
@@danw1374 I think 75 was likely the warning about 76.
Well said 👍🏻
@@danw1374 Yup, people do forget that '75 was a great summer too. Spent half my summer hols ( I was 14) down at the swimming baths in Hull teaching my younger brother to swim. happy days they were indeed.
I think it's 'romanticised' too much. 2003, 2018, and last year were all comparable with 1976.
Hotter summer days have occurred since then - in 1990, then 2003, and most recently in 2018. 2003 still holds the record for the hottest days, and temp. recorded - just over 38c. It never got as hot as that in 1976.
As for the number of consecutive sunny days (not necessarily very hot ones, but sunny nonetheless) it's hard to beat summer 2020.
The ground was so dry I got a Eagle on a par 5.The fairway was like concrete.Our local hotel opened their swimming pool to the public and school shut down.It was brilliant to be 15 back then.
In 76 the roads literally melted.
And steps.
I can still remember that sound of car tyres sticking to the melting road surface!
@@danw1374 I was 15 in 76 and loved the great weather, a year later I realised what a hell it must have been for my Dad who worked in an Iron foundry. I joined him when I left school in 77
I got into so much trouble for getting tar from the road after playing with it with a lollipop stick on my new jeans.
I was 15 in '76. What a time it was. It never bothered me that it was so hot at that age. Don't like the heat so much now.
@Don't make me laugh Well, where I live in Essex now ( in Hull in '76) 2018 was an absolutely blistering summer. Second only to '76 for me. 1976 was nationwide though.
I was just six and halfway through infant school. As a redhead, I needed plenty of sun cream to protect me from sunburn. Redheads and sun do not mix, because of the dangers of skin cancer!
I was just six and halfway through infant school. As a redhead, I needed plenty of sun cream to protect me from sunburn. Redheads and sun do not mix, because of the dangers of skin cancer!
Tarmac melting, my mother doing housework in her bra and knickers. I don't think the heat felt the same. The sun these days just seems to burn. I remembered the day it rained and all the kids in my street were out dancing🌧🌨🌧🌨🌧
My mum CAN remember THE Summer OF 1976
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So can my parents.
both, were hot and sunny, it was the lack of rain too in 1976 and it was stifling, a haze, no air etc that made it seemingly hotter overall......
Candi Staton, John miles, Cliff Richard, Great weather, Great music
No comparison ! 76 was way hotter and longer. Simply glorious.
I can clearly remember that Summer,It was "Boiling" hot for weeks,Had no rain for months,I was working in a shop then on one of my older Jobs,We had plenty of cold fans in there then,Keeping us all cool,Any one remember the end of that Summer,I was out doing Gardening that day,Next thing,One massive hudge big Wind storm,I was holding on to the Garden tent,While it being taken down,Before blowing away,It was that Windy,I thought I was going to blow away with it,The sky looked very angry sort of Sky,When the Thunder storm was on its way,It one hell of a hudge BIG thunderstorm,It more than belted it down of rain,The thunder was very loud,Went on through most of the evening,Never forget that day
I went to the Seychelles on holiday and the UK had this heat wave! Saw the island given independence whilst there--didn't mis the UK one bit!
What about summer 2020? ....a truly marvellous summer. It started with an unusually very warm spring in the April of that year.....the very warm spring merged seamlessly into a summer that grew hotter and hotter. I remember endless sunny days from basically early April (2020) to mid September. There was very little rain. A huge contrast from Summer 2021 - one of the wettest summers on record.
I think people like to think there has never been a summer like 1976 since that year, but in reality there have been several. 1983, 1990, 2003, 2018, and 2020 were all comparable with 1976 - especially 2003 and 2018.
yes, summer 2020 wasn't bad ... summer 2021, don't think anyone will remembering this one in the same way.
Go to Metoffice, they have historical temperatures around UK. But they average out each month, which gives the impression the temperatures were lower.
Averages don't tell the truth and are used and abused propaganda today in many scenario's especially the average person saved bs.
Your quite correct Fly Bobby
@@haydenharris3059 Like 100% increase in covid cases, yep, gone from 1 to 2. Everything has to be in context.
They give 1976 summer temps' around 23 in my parts. I can tell you the thermometer in our garden in the shade was regular 33 to 34. For a few weeks. It was lovely but tiring. But if averaged with cooler days give 23 .
This was a time when Horizon TV programme was talking about the coming of the next ice age. Discussing how to keep the planet warm, in Euro migration to Africa.
@@flybobbie1449 Exactly because the properganderists know people just listen to the headline.
The summer of 2018 was mostly over by the middle of July in the North. August was cool and wet.
76 was bloody fantastic, gutted it ended. I fucked off every year ever since that year I still love the 🌞
so was i i was 14 too in 1976 i remember that one hotest summer of that year and a great year to remember
As mentioned 74 & 75 were great summers both bettered by 76 but they had started the water shortage.My opinion 1983 was a great year for a long dry sunny summer and autumn
2018 when things were normal .I was 19 good memories
It was much hotter in 1976. The British weather is actually cooler now than it was 50 years ago.
Also it was hot in summer 2003 that's when I first heard about summer 1976
Yes 2003 was a hot one. Particularly the latter half of July and first half of August. I remember going back to my car to go home from work and finding little pieces of plastic everywhere. I forgot I'd left a cigarette lighter in the car, it had exploded in the heat!
1976 had a minster for Drought Hosp pipe Ban 🇬🇧
I remember Funny Face Ice cream 😁👍
Great fun & crazy times..2018 ? I don't remember anything exceptional..couple of hot days people are shouting heatwave..it was the summer after all..
I was just thinking the same thing! I remember the heatwave of '76 well (I was 9 at the time) but I have no recollection of 2018's summer being anything special.
76. Was in the Royal Navy..sadly had to cool off with lots of beer..
Short memory then 2018 where I live in Essex was bloody hot and the earth was scorched. I remember '76 ( i was 15) and reckon, for the duration of Jun/Jul/Aug that it was the second hotest I've been through. 2003 had some belting heat too.
2018 was very pleasant and I got a lot accomplished due to the nice weather and lovely warm evenings permitted us to dine outside almost every day. 1976 was no big deal for me, as I'd previously lived in much hotter and colder climates before returning to England in 1975. However, it was far drier in '76 than 2018. Of course, in 2018 ,certain locations in the UK may have had it worse. I'm near the border of Monmouthshire and it was very nice in 2018.
15 days of 32c , hmm yet the silly climate alarmists cry when its hot for just 2 days here hahahah
2018 was hotter than 1976, we have just got used to it.
1976 in the UK was hot, for sure, ‘75 was a warm-up. the first instalment of the heating bill came in October ‘87.
I was a 20 year-old student in ‘76, and it was a great summer. Long, hot and cloudless, and tremendous pressure on water resources. There were lager shortages because of strikes and the huge amount of water required to make a pint of beer, so my dad started selling tankard ale through the lager cooler (unheard of in those days) in his village pub. It was very popular. I got the best tan I ever had helping to re-roof a stable block.
There were differences between ‘76 and ‘18, other than temperature and rainfall. In ‘76, atmospheric CO2 was at 332ppm and in 2018 409ppm. In ‘76 the air industry carried 471,773,396 passengers, and in 2018 4.242 billion. In 1976, the World had 342 million cars on the road and by 2018, 1.4 billion.
The air is much, much more polluted in 2018 than 1976. This has two effects - increases in greenhouse gases by nearly 25% keeping up the trend towards higher temperatures, and other pollutants increasing haze, cutting the amount of blue skies and apparent sunlight. We had a glimpse of how bad air pollution had slowly become with the few-days ban on flights after 9.11. Fast forward to a lockdown 2020 and we all saw the results of no cars on the road and no planes in the air.
Like a frog in a pan of cold water placed on a hot stove, we have slowly but surely become accustomed to the new what-passes-for-normal.
1987 uk summer was a washout and it wasn't very warm. 1988 was cooler than average but dry.
What about 1983, 1990, 2003, and 2006? 2019 and 2020 were also both hot summers in The UK
not for 15 consecutive days
@@bonysminiatures3123 The 2003 and 2006 heatwaves lasted for about three weeks straight!
@@georgecollins2412 they are not mentioned though they insist that 76 was the hottest and longest
@@bonysminiatures3123 There is a potential chance that summer 2022 could be the hottest summer in The UK as it was the first time The UK ever went above 40°C and it has not rained that much!
@@georgecollins2412 yeah agreed it is the hottest but only lasted few days after 35c for us where i live it plummeted next week to 15c a 20c drop !!
1976 sounds dreadful hope we never get that crap again. Dire. I was over 2018 midway through.
1976 was hot but so was some summers of the 90s and 00s
not for 15 days runnning
1976 was really really hot.
water is being used due to too many people and houses than 1976
Yes you're right, there's just far more demand for it now for the reasons you described.
76 was hotter no question…..remember sitting in school class …please sir can I take my blazer off ? …… almost unbearable …….but we got through it
I was 4 in 1976.
I was 8 in 76 so I can't remember
I was 36 in 1976 and in Edinburgh where i lived we had no rain from April to August and it was scorching. It was a summer so untypical of Scotland.Iam 81 adn i have never known another summer like it and never want to.
I bought air conditioning
Wow top less firemen, those were the days..
1976 was longer and all this climate change con days recently
agreed
It must have been global warming
1976 wins easily great year started in May finished late September no rain.no woke no rubber boats no...it goes on
Climate expert couldn't have 76 hotter when we were staring down the barrel of an ice age. I remember there BS Then same BS now just a different direction.
yes shows you are stupid climate science actually is