The UK Summer of 1976. Dress rehearsal for our new normal
Peter Gibbs
Memories of the Summer of 1976 endure in the British memory, 35.9 °C, parched fields, standpipes in the streets.
50 years on and, in the last decade alone, temperatures above 36 °C have been recorded on six days in the UK and the UK’s highest record temperature now stands at 40.3 °C.
