Cold, Heavy Rain, Floods–Extreme Weather In June 1971!
July 7, 2021
By Paul Homewood
By contrast with the warm, sunny Junes of 1951 and 61, June 1971 was cold and wet, with snow as well in the Scottish Highlands.
Southern England was hardest hit by the rain, with many places seeing more than a month’s worth of rain falling in a day.
The heavy rain led to damage to hay crops and local flooding.
Across the UK, only five Junes have been colder in records dating back to 1884. (The coldest, incidentally, was in 1972):
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Yes I remember June 1971, it was a huge wash out down in Parkstone/Poole in Dorset where I was living at the time. Soaked through just about everyday as I trudged out to my part-time job.
Trevor Harley gives so fascinating insights to past weather events (trevorharley.com).
His take on June 1971 at https://www.trevorharley.com/weather-june.html says …
Great! Finally find someone who lived in Parkstone around my time there – although in 1971 the RAF decided they’d prefer I went to Chester.
Happy memories of my late teens spent working for Forte in Poole Park. Thanks for refreshing some memories. 🙂
“Climate Scientists” (oxymoron) seem to believe that the climate only changed after the global cooling scare of the 1960s. Any weather event that is unusual proves climate change ………. unless it doesn’t, when it is just weather. I wonder how many of them have ever looked at climate history as recorded by observers rather than relatively recent instruments, or even the works of HH Lamb?
Later in that summer I spent 6 weeks geologically mapping in the Kinloch Rannoch area of Perthshire – it was blisteringly hot!
June 1944 was pretty awful too. The storms destroyed the Mulberry Harbour (Mulberry B) at Omaha Beach and nearly destroyed Mulberry A used by the British and Canadian forces. Nevertheless, that harbour managed to supply the US forces as well.
Unfortunately that’s just history; something we don’t teach in schools anymore.
DMc
Yes, I have said this year has reminded me of the summers in the 970s. I hope there are no more of them. They were cold and then, I think the 1980s summers were wonderful !!!??
However, 1976 was a total scorcher. The spell of hot weather in 1976 lasted from mid-June to the end of August and apparently included 15 consecutive days where a maximum temperature of 32C or more was enjoyed in at least one part of the country. Bewl reservoir in Kent dried up completely. I remember it well, as we were selling our house at the time – nil points ‘cos everyone was at the beach. Aah.
1975 wasn’t too bad either, but always in the shadow of ’76, although there was snow in England in June ’75
A really amazing thing about the summer of 1976 was that I actually spun the car I was driving off a road on the ice (yes ice) on the early morning of the 1st of August. Secondly with regard to 1975 it actually snowed in the early hours of my birthday….23rd June but went on to be almost as good as 1976!
“…reminded me of the summers in the 970s…”
That’s impressive!
My recollection of the second half of the 1980s was of cycling to and from work and constantly getting rained on. In my bit of the world, East Yorkshire, there was a whole series of dismal summers. It got to the point where I was seriously considering leaving the country to go and live somewhere a bit hotter.
Just wondering how the BBC would report another month like June 1971. Extreme weather, climate change, fossil fuels bad, renewables good etc etc.
1975 was a really good summer here in Ireland – spent the summer in a caravan on the West Coast of Ireland – I can remember it being too hot to sleep properly on most nights. 1976 was even better.
Similar summers too in a Thomson caravan up and around. As a wee sprachler, it was some stuff shifting between Caithness and Sutherland to Skye and Cuillins.sometimes to Tiighnabruich
Late June saw snow in much of Greenland. It is snowing even harder now!
This actually IS noteworthy:
http://polarportal.dk/en/greenland/surface-conditions/
Second warmunist June since records began, in Europe?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9764245/Met-Office-says-14-day-heatwave-way-Europe-basked-second-warmest-June-record.html
eustats and warmest evah June in the North America continent according to this;
“analyse the date in just eight days” but two minutes before the analysis began they’d already made up their minds.
Hmm, would they lie to us?
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57751918
Peculiar given that June was. 01°C below average worldwide?!?
You’d begin to wonder if we’ve reached the point where they just make it up to chime with the narrative as they go along, knowing that all the power choke points are in their control and that no one is going to question it other than people like us who are of no consequence to them anyway.
If you think it’s bad here, what about Ireland, they are knocking down two “pristine” power stations only built in 2004/5 to replace them with “renewable energy centres”. Then they realized they might run low on electricity in the cold winter months so they are rushing through emergency legislation to bypass planning laws to build emergency (fossil fuel) generators!
https://gript.ie/were-now-scrambling-to-ensure-electricity-why-renewables-are-failing-and-cant-succeed/
Oh :
How the BBC let climate deniers walk all over it
by George Monbiot
The fossil-fuel multinationals fund ‘thinktanks’ and ‘research institutes’.
But it’s gullible public service broadcasters that give them credibility”
Published 12 hour ago, but already
” This discussion is now closed for comments but you can still sign in or create your Guardian account to join the discussion next time”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/08/bbc-climate-change-deniers-fossil-fuel-broadcasters
Actually they got 1,000 comments then locked the gates after only 4.5 hours
Opened at 8am then “Comments will close here at 12:30 BST.”
Channel put out 5 PR tweets for this conspiracy theory story that we are all bombarded by websites funded by oil corps pushing climate scepticism.
They have minimal likes ..53
.. https://twitter.com/alextomo/status/1413232282652057606
.. https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1412866006205169666
.. https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1413230155145912322
.. https://twitter.com/alextomo/status/1413074021369974791
.. https://twitter.com/alextomo/status/1413052645892411392
Ah another story from same reporter from a few days earlier July 1st
“On Channel 4 News tonight our Washington DC correspondent @siobhankennedy4
talks to @AOC about our and Greenpeace UK investigation into Exxon and lobbyists. watch at 7pm”
ha, I always suspected PRasNews cutNpaste from Greenpeace
yes but is this methane a fossil fuel? This hydrocarbon might have been recycled by life on Earth a few times, but my guess is hydrocarbons have always been here, just waiting to be released into the atmosphere to cause the end of life on earth!
Its a scandal – a business that provides hundreds of millions with stuff that’s reliable, cheap and safe legally promotes its product.
Evil of the worst kind.
“BBC-induced Climate Disinformation”
isn’t that what Harra gives us in almost every BBC news prog these days
as they steps up their relentless Climate Alarmism campaign ahead of COP26.