Scotland is set to be hotter than Rio de Janero today (Friday, June 20) with temperatures expected to get close to 30C.
Beaches and beer gardens will doubtless be packed as Scots enjoy the weather.
Scotland’s summers are getting progressively hotter due to global warming (although it may sometimes feel like they’re not getting any drier) – with Glasgow in particular having its warmest summer ever in 2021.
However heatwaves are nothing new for Scots, with many having particularly evocative memories of 1976, when a spell of dry and warm weather spanned the end of June and the majority of July and August.
We’ve had a look back in the archives to find a few pictures from that year, and some of the other times temperatures rocketed north of the border,
6. Donkey derby
Tourists enjoying the heatave of summer 1961 with the donkeys on St Andrews Beach. Photo: Unknown
7. On duty
Policeman Ian Milne directs traffic in his shirt sleeves in Princes Street outside Marcus the Furrier during an Edinburgh heatwave in July 1962. Photo: Unknown
8. Park life
Crowds enjoying the sunshine at the former putting green in East Princes Street Gardens, in Edinburgh, in 1976. Photo: National World