Comparing This Year’s ‘Heatwave’ With 1976

Written by Paul Homewood on July 12, 2025. Posted in Current News

Much has been made of the fact that last month was hotter then June 1976, at least according to Met Office figures

Attempts to compare the two months are misleading, and frankly dishonest when used to pretend the actual weather was hotter this year.

In short, we are comparing apples and pears.

It is often forgotten that the heatwave in 1976 never really got going until the last week of the month, despite a couple of hot days two weeks before.

When it did get going, it produced scorching heat well into the middle of July, and at levels above anything seen this year.

In contrast, we only had four really hot days last month, none of which reached 30C. In 1976, every single day but one between 28th June and 7th July topped 30C.

To understand the extraordinary heatwave in 1976, you need to look at the whole picture across both June and July. So far this summer, there has been nothing that comes anywhere near that earlier heatwave.

Source: metoffice.gov.uk

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Editor’s note: climate alarmists will pretend the 1976 heatwave never happened, like they claim the Medieval, Roman, Minoan and Holocene warm periods never happened, even though they have been documented in reference books for decades.

In 1976 I was 14, and my parents took the family to Woolacombe in Devon for a fortnight, which is renowned for surfing, and jellyfish. The day we arrived it rained, which put everyone in a bad mood, but the next morning the sky was clear, and remained so for the next 13 days, raining again the day we departed for home. The suntan I got that year was only beaten by the one I got in Corfu in 1989.

My father kept detailed weather records for over 30 years, and they showed 1976 had eight consecutive weeks of hot temperatures, but interestingly, they showed the rest of that year, both before and after the heatwave, was cooler and wetter than usual.

One weekend Dad took me up to the Elan Valley dams in mid-Wales, as it had been on the news they were running dry. There was so little water in them we were able to walk behind the dams and photograph the inside of the dam walls and sluices, where we would normally have been under a hundred feet of water.

When my brother and I cleared our parents house after they died, there was no sign of the weather records Dad made, and we assume he eventually stopped recording, and subsequently disposed of them. There were a large number of photograph albums, many of which we still have to go through, and I assume the Elan Valley photos will be amongst them.

I realise this means I cannot prove what I’m claiming at the moment, but hopefully at some point I will be able to, so I will leave it to the reader to decide whether they wish to believe me or not – Andy Rowlands

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