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Nick Gardner writes:
huge snip
I believe the summer of 1976 didn't really get going until mid-June?

That was when the extreme heat began, but - at least in the south - the
preceding winter and spring had been dry.
--
John Hall "George the Third
Ought never to have occurred.
One can only wonder
At so grotesque a blunder." E.C.Bentley (1875-1956)