Having lived through 76, I think the Met Office need to go back and check their figures. 1976 was easily hotter, sunnier and drier.

I remember 1976 the summer it was hot hot hot very hot

In 76 the roads literally melted.

I was 14 in 1976. It was scorchingly hot. Our football fields dried out so much that the ground opened up and they were unplayable. The streams and brooks dried up everywhere. Nobody on the MSM in those days forecasting the end of life on Earth either.

I was 15 in '76. What a time it was. It never bothered me that it was so hot at that age. Don't like the heat so much now.

The ground was so dry I got a Eagle on a par 5.The fairway was like concrete.Our local hotel opened their swimming pool to the public and school shut down.It was brilliant to be 15 back then.

My mum CAN remember THE Summer OF 1976 🔥

Tarmac melting, my mother doing housework in her bra and knickers. I don't think the heat felt the same. The sun these days just seems to burn. I remembered the day it rained and all the kids in my street were out dancing🌧🌨🌧🌨🌧

No comparison ! 76 was way hotter and longer. Simply glorious.

Candi Staton, John miles, Cliff Richard, Great weather, Great music

both, were hot and sunny, it was the lack of rain too in 1976 and it was stifling, a haze, no air etc that made it seemingly hotter overall......

I can clearly remember that Summer,It was "Boiling" hot for weeks,Had no rain for months,I was working in a shop then on one of my older Jobs,We had plenty of cold fans in there then,Keeping us all cool,Any one remember the end of that Summer,I was out doing Gardening that day,Next thing,One massive hudge big Wind storm,I was holding on to the Garden tent,While it being taken down,Before blowing away,It was that Windy,I thought I was going to blow away with it,The sky looked very angry sort of Sky,When the Thunder storm was on its way,It one hell of a hudge BIG thunderstorm,It more than belted it down of rain,The thunder was very loud,Went on through most of the evening,Never forget that day

76 was bloody fantastic, gutted it ended. I fucked off every year ever since that year I still love the 🌞

I went to the Seychelles on holiday and the UK had this heat wave! Saw the island given independence whilst there--didn't mis the UK one bit!

I remember Funny Face Ice cream 😁👍

so was i i was 14 too in 1976 i remember that one hotest summer of that year and a great year to remember

What about summer 2020? ....a truly marvellous summer. It started with an unusually very warm spring in the April of that year.....the very warm spring merged seamlessly into a summer that grew hotter and hotter. I remember endless sunny days from basically early April (2020) to mid September. There was very little rain. A huge contrast from Summer 2021 - one of the wettest summers on record. I think people like to think there has never been a summer like 1976 since that year, but in reality there have been several. 1983, 1990, 2003, 2018, and 2020 were all comparable with 1976 - especially 2003 and 2018.

Go to Metoffice, they have historical temperatures around UK. But they average out each month, which gives the impression the temperatures were lower.

Great fun & crazy times..2018 ? I don't remember anything exceptional..couple of hot days people are shouting heatwave..it was the summer after all..

The summer of 2018 was mostly over by the middle of July in the North. August was cool and wet.

Also it was hot in summer 2003 that's when I first heard about summer 1976

As mentioned 74 & 75 were great summers both bettered by 76 but they had started the water shortage.My opinion 1983 was a great year for a long dry sunny summer and autumn

2018 when things were normal .I was 19 good memories

1976 had a minster for Drought Hosp pipe Ban 🇬🇧

1976 sounds dreadful hope we never get that crap again. Dire. I was over 2018 midway through.

I was 4 in 1976.

What about 1983, 1990, 2003, and 2006? 2019 and 2020 were also both hot summers in The UK

It was much hotter in 1976. The British weather is actually cooler now than it was 50 years ago.

1976 was really really hot.

I was 8 in 76 so I can't remember

1976 was hot but so was some summers of the 90s and 00s

water is being used due to too many people and houses than 1976

I bought air conditioning

76 was hotter no question…..remember sitting in school class …please sir can I take my blazer off ? …… almost unbearable …….but we got through it

Wow top less firemen, those were the days..

1976 was longer and all this climate change con days recently

15 days of 32c , hmm yet the silly climate alarmists cry when its hot for just 2 days here hahahah

2018 was hotter than 1976, we have just got used to it. 1976 in the UK was hot, for sure, ‘75 was a warm-up. the first instalment of the heating bill came in October ‘87. I was a 20 year-old student in ‘76, and it was a great summer. Long, hot and cloudless, and tremendous pressure on water resources. There were lager shortages because of strikes and the huge amount of water required to make a pint of beer, so my dad started selling tankard ale through the lager cooler (unheard of in those days) in his village pub. It was very popular. I got the best tan I ever had helping to re-roof a stable block. There were differences between ‘76 and ‘18, other than temperature and rainfall. In ‘76, atmospheric CO2 was at 332ppm and in 2018 409ppm. In ‘76 the air industry carried 471,773,396 passengers, and in 2018 4.242 billion. In 1976, the World had 342 million cars on the road and by 2018, 1.4 billion. The air is much, much more polluted in 2018 than 1976. This has two effects - increases in greenhouse gases by nearly 25% keeping up the trend towards higher temperatures, and other pollutants increasing haze, cutting the amount of blue skies and apparent sunlight. We had a glimpse of how bad air pollution had slowly become with the few-days ban on flights after 9.11. Fast forward to a lockdown 2020 and we all saw the results of no cars on the road and no planes in the air. Like a frog in a pan of cold water placed on a hot stove, we have slowly but surely become accustomed to the new what-passes-for-normal.

It must have been global warming

Climate expert couldn't have 76 hotter when we were staring down the barrel of an ice age. I remember there BS Then same BS now just a different direction.

1976 wins easily great year started in May finished late September no rain.no woke no rubber boats no...it goes on