https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-heatwave-hype-phew-what-a-torture/

In the scorching summer of 1976, when Britain baked for ten weeks, there was no Sky News, Twitter, Facebook, etc, to make our flesh creep 24/7. Somehow we sweltered through each day without official guidance, such as ‘drink plenty of water’. How we managed to work that one out for ourselves, I don’t know