1976

[Georgeskitchen]

Who is old enough to remember 1976?
The never ending heatwave. I was 15 at the time. It was pretty boiling hot. Water shortages with stand pipes to get water.The government even had a drought minister!
Can't remember any hysteria,( no social media back then, thank god)
All I can remember, growing up in a famous holiday resort, was a great summer with fabulous weather for weeks on end. Probably one of the best years of my life.
Anyone relate?

I remember it pretty well and I was only 10. It was a great summer to me although I did worry about the drought.

I remember the government and all the "experts" saying that the reservoirs and the water table would take years to come back to normal levels, with predictions of doom and gloom etc. They didn't. The rain began in September if I remember correctly, around the time schools were due to go back, and didn't stop for weeks. There were floods everywhere and still it kept coming. Reservoirs were brimming over in no time and rivers were in flood.

@Wheresthecheese Thankyou.

During the heatwave of 1976, I was really aware that summer the year before, I'd initially been struggling because it was really cold and snowed! Then there was a heatwave too, and then cold again.

It was a big deal at the time, but quickly dwarfed when summer 1976 happened.