Ahh, 1976...
A baking hot summer with tabloid headlines stating the obvious 'Another Scorcher' alongside pictures of scantily clad ladies.
This was before the days of 'weather warnings' and 'global warming' aka 'climate change' when we're knee deep in snow.
It seems to me that the met office has some kind of agenda to spread alarm and despondency and to convince us that we are to blame for Snow in Winter, March Winds, April Showers etc; and must therefore be punished by having wind farm monstrosities blighting every beauty spot,sky high energy prices complete with stealth tax 'renewable energy' surcharges, and the man made climate change student politics ideology elevated almost to the status of a religion, with us 'unbelievers' and sceptics cast as lunatic flat earth Luddites.
What really makes me laugh is that the met office muppets can't tell us with any reasonable degree of accuracy what the weather will be like next week, but we're expected to believe that they can predict 'climate change' in 50 years time.
Oh for the days when the weather was read by a mustachioed bespectacled bloke with a stick and a map with squiggles and numbers on it. The bloke simply read what he thought the weather would be like the next day, no 'severe weather warnings' or reports for those attending a football match in Brighton or Newcastle, no grim dramatic tone previously reserved for the outbreak of war when reading the forecast, and no hidden agendas either, just dear old Dennis Howell.
Meanwhile nowadays the greediest energy consumers on the other sde of the Atlantic turn up their air conditioners when it's warm, the central heating is stiflingly hot when the weather is cold and they drive around in vehicles that do 12mpg - and the climate change zealots who want to put us all back on bicycles jet around the globe to conferences to find ways of making us here in the UK pay for everybody elses greed.
Life was so much simpler back then in 1976.............
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