Has anybody mentioned the summer of 1976 yet?!

[jerseycowsman]

It's getting a bit dry down here in the south west

 

[7610 super q]

Little bit before my time......but dad seems to think it was quite wet in 1976 till June ? Then scorchio !!!
No sign of the Sex Pistols though so far this year.....

 

[pgtips]

I agree, just finished haymaking in a dodgy time, then it took up.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

I was driving the Bedford CA round the fields the 2 previous winters feeding the sheep.
No way would I have gone off the tarmac last W or the one before.

 

[Wombat]

We need a decent summer for once

 

[Archie]

Surprised the national media have not cottoned onto the fact there has been very little rain in the past 7 months and that if this continues there will be drought with water shortages.

Maybe no bad thing though. Last time they woke up and made a fuss about it was June 2012. Rained before the week was out and then never stopped

 

[Hilly]

Been two showers here today, one early doors, an another mid morning but that was hail didnt half upset the cows ! things greener already !

 

[Top Tip.]

It has been snowing hard here for the last hour.

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Yup been snowing on n off all afternoon here aswell, hopefully the frost and snow won't affect the osr too badly as it's in full flower

 

[ThatsSomeSheep]

I think thats when I got my first real six-string.....

TSS

 

[Wooly]

It's getting a bit dry down here in the south west

I doubt people will be prepared to get their water from standpipes like they did in 76. They would now expect bottled water delivered to the door !

 

[Deereone]

I have very happy memories of "76

 

[Princess Pooper]

Low rainfall in the winter of 1975-76 then the real drought in summer of 1976. We had a single day's holiday day trip to the Gower August bank holiday Sat I think it was and remember the hill fires blocking out the sun in mid Wales. Then the Govt appointed the Minister for Drought and then it peed down in September and it was very very wet!!!!!!

Yup I remember sharing bath water (at least as one of the youngest and thus to bed earliest I got the cleaner end!!!). Mum using washing up water to keep the veg garden alive. I was not involved with farming but a friend had to tanker water from the river for his cows and the troughs acquired quite a population of fish..
http://booty.org.uk/booty.weather/climate/1975_1999.htm

 

[Old Boar]

We got two cuts of silage in 76. Contractor turned up with a header that would cope with little grass and had to go and swop it as we had a good crop. I dont think this place has ever really dried out!

 

[Barleycorn]

I was a student on the late Simon Chick's farm near Dorchester in '76. Remember haymaking with very few bales being moved, but a lot of lying in the shade. A fantastic farm though with many enterprises, we could only dream of it now.

 

[multi power]

I don't see what all the fuss is, nature ALWAYS balanced things out

 

[Pilatus]

According to my notes 1975 was very dry,I wrote "Summer driest on record didn't have any real quantity of rain from mid April till mid September", I then noted a very dry winter . In 1976 I write we had a new MF 525 combine,New MF 185 and new weeks trailer!!! (At that time we were tenant farmers with no overdraft !!!) . Summer driest ever known,sheep feeding on hay from racks, and cattle living on barley straw. Aphids very bad on wheat.
I would not wish a year like that on any of you farming know,as economic times are so different now.
Lets hope it rains .

 

[Bobthebuilder]

I think thats when I got my first real six-string.....

TSS

That was 69 I remember it as it was the year Jodie got married

 

[Top Tip.]

Just having breakfast looking out on 4 inches of snow and still snowing hard and thinking now which lambing field will I go to first?

 

[Bobthebuilder]

By the way the snow showers were coming thick n fast last night I'm surprised to see the grass thismorning and sunshine