Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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🗣️"It wasn’t as rose-tinted as everybody remembers. It was pretty hardcore…”

Meteorologist and Met Matters editor Kirsty McCabe from the Royal Meteorological Society told The Standard’s Madelaine Dowds why why romanticising the 1976 heatwave is warping our understanding of modern climate change.

With a staggering 250 extra deaths a day, the reality of 1976 was far grimmer than the nostalgia suggests.

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