1976 is famous for being a scorching summer (at least with Brits over a certain age), but it's not in the top ten of our temperature records. Seven of those ten

1976 is famous for being a scorching summer (at least with Brits over a certain age), but it's not in the top ten of our temperature records. Seven of those ten are from this century :-( At the other poster mentioned, records began around 1880.