@MartinKnight_ Didn’t we appoint a Minister for Drought in 1976? Denis Howell. I seem to recall within days we were deluged.

@GrattidgeIan He died of sunstroke

@MartinKnight_ A vague feeling of heat over a continuous period is more reliable than carefully collected and verified data. Everyone was happy when I was young and yet, apparently, Leslie Whittle was left to die in a drain

@slopingpitch Yes, it’s sad how people forget. They even spell her name wrongly sometimes.

@MartinKnight_ I went to see The Who on Whitsun Bank Holiday at the end of May 1976 at Charlton and it rained. The next time it rained was the August Bank Holiday, so they're probably right about September not having 30 degrees for days in a row before.

@Blue_Tomorrow8 Humble Pie?

@MartinKnight_ No, you’ve just misremembered it. The heatwave was over by the end of August.

@MartinKnight_ yep lasted to october

@MartinKnight_ @TheSpeakingRog Didn't happen in September 1976. The heat was earlier.

@MartinKnight_ Sees a news report showing something as fact….. Doubts it, but doesn’t google it, because he sort-of remembers (wrongly as it turns out) that it might have been warm in September almost 50 years ago. Pilock.

@MartinKnight_ In '76 it was June and July

@MartinKnight_ We call that summer here in West Virginia.

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@MartinKnight_ 76 heatwave was from end June through August, by Sept I seem to remember it being quite wet!

@MartinKnight_ We didn’t have climate change then, it was the good old days when weather was just weather, natures gift whatever it was.

@MartinKnight_ Interesting, I would have thought it happened in sept ‘76 as well!

@MartinKnight_ Aye

@MartinKnight_ Yes Martin. It doesn’t fit the narrative.

@MartinKnight_ It’s probably because we used old money back then.

@MartinKnight_ Me too. Remember it well.