Summer

[Skippyjack]

What was it like years ago? My family keep telling me we used to get 4 months solid of decent weather.. the last 10 years have been mental, we're lucky to get a week of sun

 

[exiledclaseboy]

It’s much the same. Stories of the long, hot summers of yore are mostly nostalgia fuelled myths.

 

[Lifelong]

People tend to only remember the good days.

When I was fishing the rivers 40 years ago and up to 20 years ago I used to wish for wet summers to bring up the Salmon and Sewin. We used to have plenty of them.

 

[Swanjaxs]

Summer of 76

Kiki Dee and Elton John

Soft sand down the gennith burning your feet like you were stepping on a frying pan...
Global warming lol

Enjoy you old cùnts
https://youtu.be/z0qW9P-uYfM

 

[Ebo]

It’s much the same. Stories of the long, hot summers of yore are mostly nostalgia fuelled myths.

1976 was unbearable for many, for us school kids though it was brilliant. I think we must have had average temps in the high 20's for weeks. Rivers dried up, lakes dried up. Never seen anything like it since.

1989 was another hot one, year my younger sister got married and then 95 was another scorcher which I remember for very sad reasons as my dear mother was dying slowly from cancer.

 

[Pegojack]

My teenage summers bring up memories, probably unreliable as ECB says, of double decker buses to the beach from Baglan after school, horsing around with a rugby ball on the sand with my mates, crashing into the big rollers on Aberavon beach, then nipping over the road for a couple of pints in the Executive Bar.

 

[dickythorpe]

What I've noticed is that there is more of a breeze that lasts until May but this year it still is around even now in June.
We are seeing extremes of weather within shorter spaces of time.
1983 was a scorcher I remember we had a drought and my mother used to tip the left over washing up water onto the lawn as ground was cracking.

I've heard of 1976, any truth that you could just pick up fish?

 

[Pegojack]

What I've noticed is that there is more of a breeze that lasts until May but this year it still is around even now in June.
We are seeing extremes of weather within shorter spaces of time.
1983 was a scorcher I remember we had a drought and my mother used to tip the left over washing up water onto the lawn as ground was cracking.

I've heard of 1976, any truth that you could just pick up fish?

Yes, Dicky, with chips in the Ferry chippie, about 45p.

 

[Muteswan]

What I've noticed is that there is more of a breeze that lasts until May but this year it still is around even now in June.
We are seeing extremes of weather within shorter spaces of time.
1983 was a scorcher I remember we had a drought and my mother used to tip the left over washing up water onto the lawn as ground was cracking.

I've heard of 1976, any truth that you could just pick up fish?

Those summer breezes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T88fbHOmvRk

 

[WxmJax]

I also like the original. Jim Seals passed away two weeks ago.

https://youtu.be/1KnK3z6DKaI

 

[K23]

In '76, I was living in Guildford and working in Basingstoke and travelling by train which had to cross a long stretch of unshaded, sandy heathland and at the height of the drought & temperatures, my return train journeys were delayed every day while they replaced sections of track that had warped in the heat. It was brutal. I can remember the afternoon when the first rain appeared after months without and people were outside dancing in it in the streets which was great fun.

 

[Ebo]

In '76, I was living in Guildford and working in Basingstoke and travelling by train which had to cross a long stretch of unshaded, sandy heathland and at the height of the drought & temperatures, my return train journeys were delayed every day while they replaced sections of track that had warped in the heat. It was brutal. I can remember the afternoon when the first rain appeared after months without and people were outside dancing in it in the streets which was great fun.

Yes I remember when it finally did rain. People were putting buckets and anything else out that would hold water.

Spent a lot of that summer in Oxwich. We couldn’t stay in our caravan due to the drought and I think Greenways had closed because of it.

 

[Cooperman]

2018 was another hot one. I found a screen shot from four years ago today where the iOS weather app showed only sunshine for the window of time that it could. There followed nearly seven weeks of blue sky and genuine warmth.

I got married in 2003 and that was the year when London nearly reached 40°c. We were on honeymoon at the time and it was hotter in the UK than it was in Mauritius.

 

[K23]

2018 was another hot one. I found a screen shot from four years ago today where the iOS weather app showed only sunshine for the window of time that it could. There followed nearly seven weeks of blue sky and genuine warmth.

I got married in 2003 and that was the year when London nearly reached 40°c. We were on honeymoon at the time and it was hotter in the UK than it was in Mauritius.

We honeymooned in Mauritius too, in 1991. Lovely place, would go again if it wasn't quite so far away

 

[Cooperman]

2018 was another hot one. I found a screen shot from four years ago today where the iOS weather app showed only sunshine for the window of time that it could. There followed nearly seven weeks of blue sky and genuine warmth.

I got married in 2003 and that was the year when London nearly reached 40°c. We were on honeymoon at the time and it was hotter in the UK than it was in Mauritius.

We honeymooned in Mauritius too, in 1991. Lovely place, would go again if it wasn't quite so far away

Yeah it's a long drag. I'm not one for sleeping on a plane and it makes for a long night watching the map of Africa tick by.