Posted on 08/14/2022 6:52:58 AM PDT by DallasBiff
I arrived in West Germany for service in the US Army in early June 1978 and the balance of that month was mostly overcast/rainy with the exception of a few days. My wife was very down due to the weather and the long distance separation from her family. Old hands who were in Germany in the summer of 1976 were still talking about it in 1978, especially considering the weather contrast between those years.
>>In ‘77 there was almost no snow.
Feb of 2014 NY Times: We could be seeing the end of snow.*
Feb of 2015: Record snowfall buries Northeast
Also
CBSNews Colorado:”February 2015 officially broke the record as Denver’s snowiest February in history on Thursday evening. “
*—”The same could happen in the United States, where in the Northeast, more than half of the 103 ski resorts may no longer be viable in 30 years because of warmer winters. As far for the Western part of the country, it will lose an estimated 25 to 100 percent of its snowpack by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions are not curtailed”
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/08/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-snow.html
Yes, same here!
The Floods of 1936--Red Foley (1936)
Dust--The Sons of the Pioneers, featuring Roy Rogers (1938)
Dusty Skies--Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (1941)
In Scranton in 1976, there was a record heat wave from April 19 through the 22nd. No other 90 degree days that year.
Even then, I saw the need for more government confiscation to prevent the global climate cooling catastrophe. Prescient young man was I. lol
Must've worked, no?
The “restrictions” status of my youtube account won’t let me see this either.
1976 ...I’d just turned 24 ...My first visit to England was in September of that year . I spent a week in London and then did a 2 week tour of mid/southern England by rental car . Never rained once as I recall . The normally verdant green countryside was burnt brown by the blazing sun . A shame but I had a marvelous adventure nonetheless and returned 5 more times between 1977-1983 before moving to Japan in 1985 .
I was in Dayton, Ohio, in 1976. The summer was hot and the pool was our hangout.
Summer of 76 will stick in my mind forever. Lost my dad, heart attack Aug 12, died Sept 16.
*tries to remember 1976*
Me: I know I can do this...... *tries again*
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LOL. Yeah, my memories of that summer are a bit fuzzy as well.
I was in Pittsburgh and it didn't hit 90 that summer and dipped into the low and mid 50's at night.
I was stationed at MCAS El Toro, California in 1976 and I don’t remember anything special about the weather that year. The heatwave summer I remember is one in Europe in 2003. I was on a TDY to Ramstein and it was absolutely miserable. Our quarters had no A/C, but at least I had a fan I bought in Canada, where we spent the night on our way over there. I knew there would be no fans to buy once we got there, and I was right.
Sorry for your loss. Certain dates in time stick with us in good and bad times.
I remember this from about that time: I used to hitchhike a lot and this one guy picked me up. I was hhing from somewhere like Castle Rock or Monument or something like that and this guy gave me a ride to the S side of Denver. We started talking about the new buildings going up everywhere and he said it was a real estate scam. (Quote unquote.) He said that in Colorado there’s only so much water and that’s it. You can build whatever you want but good lucking getting a water tap permit. He said that housing subdivisions would turn into “instant ghettoes” and that’s what was supposed to happen. We discussed the unusually hot weather and since this was something everyone could agree on it seemed to support his story.
I don’t remember which 1970s year it was, I just remember a day, a late in the year (April) Easter day and it turned out to be the hottest day in NJ for that year.
We had a large Easter Sunday dinner gathering that we had planned to hold outside, where we had more space and we thought everyone would simply enjpoy being outside.
We had to more everything and everyone indoors with all the aircon units in the house running.
I know the day, remember it well but can’t remember the exact year.
“I remember the winter of ‘77 which was taken as proof of a new ice age coming.”
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It dropped to a blockbusting -7F... and I know, because mine did! A lesson on antifreeze, learned the hard way.
It was so cold for so long, ice accumulated on the shaded parts of roads and just stayed there. Body shops made a fortune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awQc_wZN0nY
Here’s another one... Only a few years before Spock told us it’ll snow in Buffalo during the winter.
Right now in the San Fernando valley the temp is 102 degrees.
All month in the upper 90’s, low 100’s.
About 30 miles north the temp is 70 degrees in Ventura....
Ventura is a steady 70 degrees all year long for the most part.
Now there is a 32 degree difference and the 18 million and more in LA county are not moving up north. They may like the hot weather.
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