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It is 1976..So why that
summer ?
That year, that summer. What a year and it is still talked about with
great fondness by the Class of 77. We were in the Lower 6th form.
We were a year on from O Levels (as was) and a year away from A
levels..so it was party time much to the chagrin of the staff! We
were also beginning to get mopeds and motorcycles and even
cars..things were gettin’ better !
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The summer of 1976 was
the hottest summer in
the UK since records
began.
The temperature reached
80°F (26.7°C) every day
between 22 June and 16
July. The truly remarkable
heat wave was in late
June and early July. For 15
consecutive days from 23
June to 7 July inclusive,
temperatures reached
90°F (32.2°C) somewhere
in England on each of
these 15 days.
Furthermore, five days
saw temperatures exceed
95°F (35°C). On 28 June,
temperatures reached
35.6°C (96.1°F) in
Southampton, the
highest June temperature
recorded in the UK. The
hottest day of all was 3
July, with temperatures
reaching 35.9°C (96.6°F)
in Cheltenham, one of the
hottest July days on
record in the UK.
The drought was at its
most severe in August
1976. Parts of the south
west went 45 days
without any rain in July
and August. As the hot,
dry weather continued,
devastating heath and
forest fires broke out in
parts of Southern
England. 50,000 trees
were destroyed at Hurn
Forest in Dorset. Crops
were badly hit, with £500
million worth of crops
failing. Food prices
subsequently increased
by 12% [1].
The effect on domestic
water supplies led to the
passing of a Drought Act
by parliament and
Minister for Drought,
Denis Howell, was
appointed. There was
widespread water
rationing and public
standpipes in some
affected areas. Reservoirs
were at an extremely low
level, as were some
rivers. The rivers Don,
Sheaf, Shire Brook and
Meers Brook (all in
Sheffield) all ran
completely dry, without a
drop of water in any of
them, as well as
Frecheville Pond and
Carterhall Pond
(Carterhall Pond was
permanently dry until
2007, when floods hit,
and has never dried
since).
In the Central England
Temperature series 1976
has the hottest summer
for more than 350 years
and probably for much
longer. The average
temperature over the
whole summer (June, July,
August) was 17.77°C,
compared to the average
for the unusually warm
current decade (2001-
2008) of 16.30°C.[1] There
have in other years been
hotter specific summer
months, though.
For the entire period
much of Europe was
bathed in continual
sunshine with the United
Kingdom seeing an
average of more than 14
hours of sunshine per
day. 1976 was dubbed
"The year of the
Ladybird" in that country
due to the rise in the
mass numbers of
ladybirds brought on by
the long hot period.
"The long hot summer of
1976 which eventually
ended in September of
that year, was the
culmination of a 16-week
dry spell - the longest
recorded over England
and Wales since 1727.
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