| Hands Up 01:07 - Jul 19 with 4585 views | quirkie |
How many old fogies here can remember 1976 with 3 months solid of 30C heat from the start of June to the end of August?
Compared to a two day freak heatwave and bedwetting central world going to end scenario at the moment.
Everyone wants a drama nowadays,
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| Hands Up on 01:21 - Jul 19 with 2923 views | jeera |
Wow. No one has mentioned 1976, not once.
Don't be so wet.
If you could remember then you would know it caused a lot of problems, and, as posted elsewhere, a rise of 30% death rate.
"Bedwetting". Try to think for yourself instead of copying these ridiculous phrases.
Pathetic troll.
I gotta add, there's more drama coming from these sort of posts than any complaining about the flipping heat. [Post edited 19 Jul 2022 1:23]
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| Hands Up on 02:11 - Jul 19 with 2863 views | itfc56 |
I do remember it and the hardship it caused many, as well as exactly the same media hype although admittedly with less outlets. But more importantly it is a lazy and inaccurate comparison. I know it's a struggle for some to grasp but global temperature change actual matters as much to us as what happens on our little island. Think this may have been posted before but it bears repetition for some like OP who obviously missed it.
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| Hands Up (n/t) on 02:34 - Jul 19 with 2855 views | quirkie |
| Hands Up on 01:21 - Jul 19 by jeera |
Wow. No one has mentioned 1976, not once.
Don't be so wet.
If you could remember then you would know it caused a lot of problems, and, as posted elsewhere, a rise of 30% death rate.
"Bedwetting". Try to think for yourself instead of copying these ridiculous phrases.
Pathetic troll.
I gotta add, there's more drama coming from these sort of posts than any complaining about the flipping heat. [Post edited 19 Jul 2022 1:23]
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Sorry I got it wrong, you are quite correct.
It was too hot today and the world is going to end. [Post edited 19 Jul 2022 2:38]
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| Hands Up on 04:15 - Jul 19 with 2806 views | BlueBadger |
Would this be the summer which resulted in a 20% increase in excess deaths and increased demand on NHS beds?
That one? |  |
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| Hands Up (n/t) on 04:19 - Jul 19 with 2786 views | BlueBadger |
| Hands Up (n/t) on 02:34 - Jul 19 by quirkie |
Sorry I got it wrong, you are quite correct.
It was too hot today and the world is going to end. [Post edited 19 Jul 2022 2:38]
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God forbid the field of public health move in the past 46 years, eh? | |
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| Hands Up on 06:18 - Jul 19 with 2685 views | oldburian |
Yes I remember 1976, my wife and I had a May holiday in Scotland and it rained every day. It was not until September when another in the office had the same experience. | | | |
| Hands Up on 06:42 - Jul 19 with 2636 views | Coastalblue |
I remember it, and the swarms of ladybirds. Wasn't 3 months of 30C though was it?
Not sure reducing this time to a two day heatwave is a particularly realistic comparison either, lots of days in the high 20's and a peak which may well see unprecedented temperatures.
I'm assuming you're not having to work outside in it? |  |
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| Hands Up on 07:08 - Jul 19 with 2569 views | bluelagos |
| Hands Up on 06:42 - Jul 19 by Coastalblue |
I remember it, and the swarms of ladybirds. Wasn't 3 months of 30C though was it?
Not sure reducing this time to a two day heatwave is a particularly realistic comparison either, lots of days in the high 20's and a peak which may well see unprecedented temperatures.
I'm assuming you're not having to work outside in it? |
Remember queueing up with bottles at a stand pipe to fetch water for my mum. Not sure if that was widespread or just a local burst pipe.
Poor mum was pregnant with my kid bro born in August, as she reminded him everytime he messed her about for the following 20 years :-)
Not a fan of anything over 30 tbh. Tomorrow is going to feel lovely. |  |
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| Hands Up (n/t) on 07:11 - Jul 19 with 2563 views | MattinLondon |
| Hands Up (n/t) on 04:19 - Jul 19 by BlueBadger |
God forbid the field of public health move in the past 46 years, eh? |
The hottest day of the 1976 heatwave wouldn’t even be in the top 12 of hottest days on record for the country. Bunch of lightweights to bang on about it. |  | | |
| Hands Up on 07:12 - Jul 19 with 2558 views | solomon |
Some of us are so old we can remember a time when stupidity was far less common than it is today. |  | | |
| Hands Up on 07:12 - Jul 19 with 2559 views | Churchman |
| Hands Up on 06:42 - Jul 19 by Coastalblue |
I remember it, and the swarms of ladybirds. Wasn't 3 months of 30C though was it?
Not sure reducing this time to a two day heatwave is a particularly realistic comparison either, lots of days in the high 20's and a peak which may well see unprecedented temperatures.
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From the wiki page attached to my post on the other thread:
‘Heathrow had 16 consecutive days over 30 °C (86 °F) from 23 June to 8 July[5] and for 15 consecutive days from 23 June to 7 July temperatures reached 32.2 °C (90 °F) somewhere in England. Furthermore, five days saw temperatures exceed 35 °C (95 °F)’.
It was quite an intense sort of summer for me, but I don’t remember the hot weather being too much of a problem. What I do remember was that the nights were quite cool to the point of being chilly-ish at 6am. |  | | |
| Hands Up on 07:32 - Jul 19 with 2488 views | StokieBlue |
Not a single day in that heatwave is now within the top 12 hottest days the UK has ever had. Yesterday was second, today could be the hottest. The nights in 1976 weren't 25C+.
A comparison between a longer term event with high temperatures and a short even with extremely high temperatures isn't very useful unless you're a pathetic troll trying to belittle others in the internet.
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| Hands Up (n/t) on 07:54 - Jul 19 with 2380 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Hands Up (n/t) on 04:19 - Jul 19 by BlueBadger |
God forbid the field of public health move in the past 46 years, eh? |
i tried to explain to my dog that I'm not taking him for a walk until evening when it's cooler. He wasn't best pleased. Couldn't work out exactly what he was saying, but I think I caught the words "rowflake" and "rineteen reventy rix"
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| Hands Up (n/t) on 07:56 - Jul 19 with 2356 views | Keno |
| Hands Up (n/t) on 07:54 - Jul 19 by GlasgowBlue |
i tried to explain to my dog that I'm not taking him for a walk until evening when it's cooler. He wasn't best pleased. Couldn't work out exactly what he was saying, but I think I caught the words "rowflake" and "rineteen reventy rix"
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did he make you paws for thought? |  |
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| Hands Up (n/t) on 07:56 - Jul 19 with 2357 views | Ftnfwest |
| Hands Up (n/t) on 02:34 - Jul 19 by quirkie |
Sorry I got it wrong, you are quite correct.
It was too hot today and the world is going to end. [Post edited 19 Jul 2022 2:38]
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Remember being in a classroom baking but we need to cancel all this. There were half the number of people in the world then as well. |  | | |
| Hands Up (n/t) on 07:59 - Jul 19 with 2337 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Hands Up (n/t) on 07:56 - Jul 19 by Keno |
did he make you paws for thought? |
I had a few beers to cool down. Feel a bit ruff this morning. | |
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| Hands Up on 08:04 - Jul 19 with 2301 views | You_Bloo_Right |
It just passed me by |  |
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| Hands Up on 08:13 - Jul 19 with 2241 views | solomon |
| Hands Up on 01:21 - Jul 19 by jeera |
Wow. No one has mentioned 1976, not once.
Don't be so wet.
If you could remember then you would know it caused a lot of problems, and, as posted elsewhere, a rise of 30% death rate.
"Bedwetting". Try to think for yourself instead of copying these ridiculous phrases.
Pathetic troll.
I gotta add, there's more drama coming from these sort of posts than any complaining about the flipping heat. [Post edited 19 Jul 2022 1:23]
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I’m getting the impression that our young friend Quirkie probably shrugged shoulders at covid too and claimed it was just a cold. | | | |
| Hands Up (n/t) on 08:35 - Jul 19 with 2122 views | jontysnut |
| Hands Up (n/t) on 07:56 - Jul 19 by Ftnfwest |
Remember being in a classroom baking but we need to cancel all this. There were half the number of people in the world then as well. |
Nearly every bit of clothing I had was brown and made of bri-nylon or polyester. A stray spark could have been fatal. |  | | |
| Hands Up on 08:42 - Jul 19 with 2101 views | CrayonKing |
I'm old enough to remember when virtually every forum on the internet had a stickied "Don't feed the trolls" post at the top. |  | | |
| Hands Up on 08:55 - Jul 19 with 2042 views | giant_stow |
Apart from anything, I think you've gone too early - I saw passing mention yesterday that the long range forecast is dry and hot. Not a lot of rain knocking about and the outside chance of more extreme heat events in the rest of the summer. |  |
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| Hands Up on 08:56 - Jul 19 with 2038 views | solemio |
The big thing about the summer of '76 was not the temperature - although it was well warm, mate - it was the months without rain.
Two things stick in my memory: we went to the far north of Scotland for a two week holiday and it was a lovely temperature up there. The other one is when in late September it finally rained everyone came out of their houses and just stood out in the rain. enjoying getting wet! | | | |
| Hands Up on 09:13 - Jul 19 with 1980 views | STYG |
How do people manage to stay alive well into adulthood without having the basic skill of context?
Imagine it as an ITFC scenario if you will. In 1976 we won Division 1 and we started with a 5-0 hammering at Liverpool before losing 4-0 to Arsenal and then 6-0 at Aston Villa. Now imagine next week we get thumped by Bolton and Forest Green and MK Dons. Do you go out and stick £100 on us winning the league because it's exactly the same as you've seen before or would you be a bit concerned?
Because there are far more seasons where we started them badly and ended up being poor than ended up being good. But instead you'd be hanging on to some absolutely bonkers and irrelevant crap from years before and burying your head in the sand about what was likely happening.
We have had hot days before, hot weeks, hot months even. But the change to the planet over the last 50 years is damaging and documented and this is just the start of some major, major issues.
Does it not bother you that in another 50 years the evidence is suggesting the planet could be near inhabitable for your children and their children?
I suppose if you don't have any loved ones that'll be around then fair enough. Why care. But most people on this planet will. | | | |
| Hands Up on 09:13 - Jul 19 with 1979 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
I do remember the summer of ‘76.
Spent most of the school summer holiday at Diss swimming pool, which back then was an outdoor baths with a grass bank on one side and a sun deck on the other. A few of us would share a packet of Players No 6 and (badly) try and chat up the girls. I was only 15 at the time.
On a more serious note quirkie, we also back then had a proper spring, autumn, and much colder winters which nowadays are becoming much more infrequent. Our climate in our neck of the woods has changed to the extent that I can now grow more tender plants successfully in the garden that 40 odd years ago would have been pretty much impossible. Our flora and fauna are a good indication of what is happening to the climate here and there are several changes, some subtle, that for me at least should be a warning to us all.
I’m having today off as I can’t face being outside working this afternoon. Unprecedented for me.
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It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| Hands Up on 09:16 - Jul 19 with 1966 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
"3 months solid of 30o heat", It was 2 weeks. But as you point out, "everyone wants a drama nowadays".
Do you also remember 1977, when we were waist deep in sex offenders and you literally had to push the Paedo's aside to get your kids onto the swings?
I'm not saying it wasn't hot, but it was 16 days over 30oC, the rest of the time was between 24 and 29oC, which is roughly what you get now, every single summer. [Post edited 19 Jul 2022 10:22]
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