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heating up What was the 1976 heatwave and how long did it last?
The Sun(UK) ^ | 7/18/22 | Caroline Peacock

Posted on 08/14/2022 6:52:58 AM PDT by DallasBiff

It was one of the driest, sunniest and warmest summers in the 20th century, although the summer of 1995 is now regarded as the driest.

The Government had begun to panic previously about low water levels in April and May, and water restrictions were introduced.

And by the summer months, the heat was so intense that the government introduced a Drought Act.

They also appointed a minister for Drought - Denis Howell - who was in charge of encouraging the public to use less water.

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I remember the summer of 1976, growing up in the NE USA, it was unusually cool and rainy.
1 posted on 08/14/2022 6:52:58 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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There were 20,years of no heating afterwards... thatnis until the lying liberal scientists changed the data from one of their satellites claiming that it wasn’t “in the right place to accurstely reflect the correct temperature”, so they changed the figures to suit their agenda, and viola, warming for those 20 years.


2 posted on 08/14/2022 6:56:59 AM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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The winter of 76/77 in the NE USA was one of the coldest and snowiest, while the summer of 77 was very hot and dry.


3 posted on 08/14/2022 6:57:13 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Kamala is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: DallasBiff

I also remember about that time the Climate Experts were calling for Global Cooling and a new ice age.

Time to flip the coin again. Heads=Cooling and Tails=Warming.

Why is it that these “Experts” are NEVER held accountable for constantly being WRONG?


4 posted on 08/14/2022 6:57:36 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: DallasBiff

I remember the winter of ‘77 which was taken as proof of a new ice age coming. Orwell would be proud.


5 posted on 08/14/2022 7:00:19 AM PDT by ToxicMasculinity (At this point, what difference does it make.)
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To: OHPatriot

Because liberal,experts can’t ever npbe wrong- only common sense espousing conservetive experts are ever wrong.


6 posted on 08/14/2022 7:00:21 AM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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To: DallasBiff
The current official highest registered air temperature on Earth is 134.1 °F, recorded on 10 July 1913 at Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley, California.

109 years ago and this record has never been broken. Yet we're told to believe that the Earth is getting hotter?

7 posted on 08/14/2022 7:00:54 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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Yeah, all this mewing and shrieking about a “dangerously heating” planet and “increasingly storms” and “wild fires” is just bull crap, since most of these henny-pennies either weren’t around or refuse to remember that it’s ALWAYS been this way. Heck, I remember some scorching hot summer and severe winters back when I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s! It’s called the WEATHER!


8 posted on 08/14/2022 7:01:32 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: DallasBiff

*tries to remember 1976*

Me: I know I can do this...... *tries again*


9 posted on 08/14/2022 7:02:19 AM PDT by Scarlett156 (Carol's been here. ~~ Sheriff Rick Grimes in TV version of "The Walking Dead")
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To: ToxicMasculinity
In Search of...the Coming Ice Age, with Leonard Nimoy
10 posted on 08/14/2022 7:03:35 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: DallasBiff

The fall of 1976 and winter of 1977 in the central US, were so brutally cold they were used as “proof” we were entering the Coming Ice Age!


11 posted on 08/14/2022 7:04:16 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.” – Aristotl)
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To: DallasBiff

The year 1936 saw some wild weather. It began with a cold winter. In the spring, there was flooding in the east while the drought that had turned the Western Plains into a dustbowl persisted. Then came a scorching hot summer in the Midwest and the East.


12 posted on 08/14/2022 7:04:22 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: DallasBiff

The day the climate stops changing is gonna be a REALLY bad day.


13 posted on 08/14/2022 7:07:12 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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I remember the winter of ‘77 which was taken as proof of a new ice age coming. Orwell would be proud.

Leonard Nimoy(Spock) narrated a show called "In Search of" back then, and he had a show about a new ice age.

14 posted on 08/14/2022 7:07:32 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Kamala is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: Fiji Hill

Pics from that time with this song from that time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqiblXFlZuk


15 posted on 08/14/2022 7:08:05 AM PDT by ToxicMasculinity (At this point, what difference does it make.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I should also mention that in 1977 winter, the Continental US had 30 days complete cloud cover for the entire month of January or Feb.

Wonder how solar panels would work in such weather!

So brutally cold I caught my first case of pneumonia and spent a week in the hospital. I was 30 years old.


16 posted on 08/14/2022 7:09:58 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.” – Aristotl)
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To: DallasBiff
Meanwhile here in the desert we’ve had the rainiest, coolest summer I’ve seen in all my time here. All that stuff a out our lakes drying up? You’d need someone working towards that end because the spectacular deluges we’ve experienced should be more than sufficient to replenish natural water reserves.

Heck we have to keep watch for many of the large storms coming out of the East. Especially with the lightning and such. Flooding has been frequent even in the cities.

”Gore-Bull” warming has always been a scam.

17 posted on 08/14/2022 7:12:04 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: DallasBiff

In Colorado in ‘76 we had an incredible snow season, huge piles were everywhere along the roadways. In ‘77 there was almost no snow. The ski areas opened late and tried to make some fake snow but few people came to ski as conditions were lousy. The resorts had a very tough season. Water runoff in the spring of ‘78 was pitiful.

And then the weather pattern changed again and snow was plentiful. Following the progression of El Nino and La Nina patterns is instructive as to the rhythms of precipitation and dry periods within larger cycles.

In Colorado right now it feels like the drought is breaking, we are getting a lot of flash floods which is usually the signal that the pattern is changing.

The planet is in the 3rd year of a La Nina pattern now.

“La Niño and La Niña are the warm and cool phases of a recurring climate pattern across the tropical Pacific—the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or “ENSO” for short. The pattern shifts back and forth irregularly every two to seven years, and each phase triggers predictable disruptions of temperature, precipitation. These changes disrupt the large-scale air movements in the tropics, triggering a cascade of global side effects.”


18 posted on 08/14/2022 7:12:27 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

That should be “El” Nino and La Nina above.


19 posted on 08/14/2022 7:14:40 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: DallasBiff; All

In Wisconsin, the WINTER of 1976 was one for the record books!

The worst part? I was a 16 year old girl WITHOUT A PHONE for a whole WEEK! Aarrgghhh! I still can’t believe I survived, LOL!

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/wisconsin/massive-blizzard-1976-wi/


20 posted on 08/14/2022 7:19:41 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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