{"id":387430,"date":"2025-07-07T19:27:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T17:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=387430"},"modified":"2025-07-07T19:27:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T17:27:05","slug":"comparing-this-years-heatwave-with-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=387430","title":{"rendered":"Comparing This Year\u2019s Heatwave With\u00a01976"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n

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Much has been made of the fact that last month was hotter than June 1976, at least according to Met Office figures. Attempts to compare the two months are misleading, and frankly dishonest when used to pretend the actual weather was hotter this year. In short, we are comparing apples and pears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is often forgotten that the heatwave in 1976 never really got going until the last week of the month, despite a couple of hot days two weeks before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it did get going, it produced scorching heat well into the middle of July, and at levels above anything seen this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brighton beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In contrast, we only had four really hot days last month, none of which reached 30C. In 1976, every single day but one between 28th June and 7th July topped 30C.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To understand the extraordinary heatwave in 1976, you need to look at the whole picture across both June and July. So far this summer, there has been nothing that comes anywhere near that earlier heatwave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/hadobs\/hadcet\/data\/download.html<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Much has been made of the fact that last month was hotter than June 1976, at least according to Met Office figures. Attempts to compare the two months are misleading, and frankly dishonest when used to pretend the actual weather was hotter this year. In short, we are comparing apples and pears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":387438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691836381,691836380,691836379,691836306,691818808],"class_list":["post-387430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-july-1976","tag-july-2025","tag-june-1976","tag-june-2025","tag-met-office","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0AQMHXQ7APBDaO6zKObPfezajAtJMGMHzqbRoEaEjFNIqIRHEkE03FuLKFvK_5K7R2Hv1k5xMuZmSDlng-VSkgypBIbsLOCGCfhGNA3h0FBOQgcR9TigTprZAcdmbCAYvriwyPLCrBhBE-CTk2KSO9GWhrxx7yw-1.jpeg?fit=1280%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1CMS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":277386,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=277386","url_meta":{"origin":387430,"position":0},"title":"Our Global Boiling Summer Was As Hot As\u00a01857!","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/05\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"They knew, of course, that it was not the hottest on record, because they have the Central England Temperature series, and this dates back further their UK records.","rel":"","context":"In \"Central England\"","block_context":{"text":"Central England","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=central-england"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/00wp6691790.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/00wp6691790.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/00wp6691790.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/00wp6691790.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/00wp6691790.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":272745,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=272745","url_meta":{"origin":387430,"position":1},"title":"The Tale Of Two Summers\u20132023 v\u00a01976","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"08\/11\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"There is nothing unusual or untoward about that fact. 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