SIR - I totally agree with George Hitchcock, (T&S letters, July 27) '1976 wasn't the only long hot summer'.
But he should have have mentioned 2003, the hottest of them all!
It is astonishing the amount of times that '76 summer is mentioned by the media and public, some of whom weren't even born then.
Remarkable though it was, 1976 wasn't our hottest and not even our driest summer. And when I mention 2003 or July 2006 being hotter than now, they suddenly suffer from amnesia for things that are far more recent and sometimes gawp at me as though I've lost the plot. They don't even remember the heatwave of five years ago.
Selective memory is a common phenomena. But generally, the popular obsession with the weather is matched only by most people's inability to recall it while often claiming that they can.
Alan Bates, Bowland Avenue, Baildon
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