1976 European heatwave

Weather event in Western Europe thumb|Low water in Upper Neuadd Reservoir, Wales in the drought of 1976. thumb|People on Paseo del Prado, Madrid in June 1976. The 1976 European heatwave was considered to be the hottest summer in Europe, and especially the United Kingdom,The summer of '76 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/water_week/66193.stm BBC News website BBC 18 August 2011 20 March 1998Gray Louise Met Office predicts a return of the summer of 1976 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/7767998/Met-Office-predicts-a-return-of-the-summer-of-1976.html https://web.archive.org/web/20100530135748/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/7767998/Met-Office-predicts-a-return-of-the-summer-of-1976.html dead 30 May 2010 Daily Telegraph website Telegraph Group 18 August 2011 London 27 May 2010Wainwright Martin The great drought https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/may/17/water.ethicalliving The Guardian website 18 August 2011 London 17 May 2006 during the 20th century.Eden Philip Change in the Weather 10 May 2006 A&C Black 978-0-8264-8029-3 67 https://books.google.com/books?id=8l2ofi0_Tf8C&dq=summer+1976+hottest+century&pg=PA67 en A large high-pressure area dominated most of Europe for all of the summer months. The pressure system moved into place in late May 1976 and remained until the first traces of rain were recorded on 27 August. Rainfall throughout the July–August period was down by half the annual average. During this spell of hot weather temperatures exceeded 32 °C (89.6 °F) at several weather stations within the United Kingdom every day and the town of Cheltenham had eleven, including seven successive days from 1 July - recording 35.9 °C (96.6 °F) on 3 July.Payne Billy The summer of 1976 http://www.meteogroup.co.uk/uk/home/weather/weather-news/news/ch/99ef80a259c162a99455f4984cb18e51/article/the_summer_of_1976.html MeteoGroup website MeteoGroup 18 August 2011 For the entire period much of Europe was bathed in continual sunshine with the United Kingdom seeing an average of more than 14 hours of sunshine per day. 1976 was dubbed "the year of the ladybird" in that country due to the rise in the mass numbers of the insect brought on by the long hot period. In the United Kingdom, the summer coincided with a 16-week dry spell, the longest recorded over England and Wales since 1727.Quote From Met Office The summer of 1976 is by now an established reference point for discussion in the UK of contemporary hot spells. See also 1976 British Isles heatwave The Year of the Ladybird – a novel by Graham Joyce References Europe, 1976 Category:Heat waves in Europe Category:20th-century heat waves Category:1976 disasters in Europe Category:June 1976 in Europe Category:July 1976 in Europe Category:August 1976 in Europe