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I have been reading about Leeds colest winters but what were leeds hottest summers. Apart from 1976 I also remember 1963/64 being exceptionally hot.

76 was murder, I was working at Moorfield Laundry at the time and the heat inside was bad enough but together with the humid heat from outside it was stiflingly hot hot hot.

I think 76' was the only time that the Open Air Pool at Roundhay Park got above freezing for once.

What are these things that you speak of?

Cardiarms wrote: What are these things that you speak of? Summers:The aliens brought them when their ships made holes in the sky and let the light from the big star shine through, so hot it dried up all the rain for weeks and weeks(&& was the same, was in Cornwall, almost a case of 'bring your own water'!)

It looks like the muppets at the met office have made another rick http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 731609.ece

1959 was a hot summer, and of course it ended in tears with standpipes in the streets. I don't think it was quite as hot as 1976, but 1976 was exceptional - a hot summer in 1975, followed by an extremely dry winter followed by another long hot summer. It broke the second week in September - in the middle of our holiday in Llanduddno

I seem to remember, apart from 1976, that there was another really hot spell and it was in the summer of 1991. I say 1991 as I could be a year or two out.I think it was the end of July and the first two weeks in August. I remember the Yorkshire Post building at the end of Wellington street had a digital thermometer and i am sure the temperature on there was 97 deg F one day. I also was cycling at the time and when it got to the hottest days I was cycling through melted tar on the roads.For once a barbeque summer LOLCan anyone else remember this?

85 was a good year. I chose the hottest day of the year to do the Three Peaks. 91 was good I started working n an office in Dudley House (K2 I think it's called now).

1959 was a belter! Year of the "printers strike", spent quite a lot of time at the Roundhay Pool and the Blue Lagoon, both always freezing. Six weeks of heaven. '55 was a good summer too. Nothing could beat '75 & '76 though - wonderful, except for the water rationing. If I remember correctly in '76, the south of the city had water one night and the north the next, this was in addition to the standpipes.