That's the thing, though
Apparently it is. At some point, we seem to have had a period of long, hot summers where it didn't rain, yet simultaneously provided us with enough water for 60 million people to not to have to worry about a hose-pipe ban.

I don't know when this mythical time was, because it hasn't been in the 31 years I've been alive, but a lot of people seem awfully put out that it's stopped happening.
( Kroney, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 11:55, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

'75 and '76
were the last long hot summers I think. Being as I was about 1, I can't remember whether or not there was a hosepipe ban I'm afraid, but I'm pretty sure there was no rain from about april to september in 1976.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 11:59, Reply)