My memories here are reliable for reasons I'll explain.
1975, the heatwave started on June 2nd and lasted 6 weeks, then just settled into warm and dry. How do I know? Well June 1st was my son's 10th birthday and we were living in Durham City. We got up that morning to find
5" of snow on the ground! I'm not kidding. Next day it was all gone - and it was beautiful weather right up until my husband went to America on business in the September. It went colder then and I couldn't get at the heating boiler to turn it on (I was 6 months pregnant) and had to get the man next door to do it.
1976 was the long hot Summer. We had moved to Cheshire and our youngest child was 6 months old when it started in June. I have vivid memories of trying to keep her cool and get her off to sleep in stifling heat, hotter than in 75, and it lasted well into September when my son started at Grammar School and moaned that his new blazer was too hot.
1977 was very warm around the Jubilee. We had various things going on in the village centre and we sat outside a pub listening to a trad jazz band playing in the village square on a lovely warm night.
So, everybody's right aren't they?
