Climate change is leading to record high temperatures across Europe and the UK is no exception.
Some of a certain age can be found talking about the long hot summer of 1976, a month long heatwave, leading to the appointment of a Minister for Drought when the obvious happened.
Tony Benn made reference to the weather in his diary for 1976.
Sunday 27th June.still boiling hot
Tuesday 6th July Cabinet. We sat around the table in our shirt sleeves on a very hot July day
Saturday 10th July.To Stansgate. Still unbelievably hot.Its been in the eighties or nineties for about a month now and the grass is absolutely brown..
Benn recorded that the maximum temperature reached was 35C
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