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,
9. Hot dog
Miss Souness of Sighthill Terrace crosses Princes Street with her pet poodle during the 1960 Edinburgh heatwave. Photo: Unknown
10. Putting on a show
Fife also simmered in 1976 - with these crowds enjoying Glenrothes Summer Show, held in August. Photo: National World
12. Holiday crowds
Holidaymakers enjoying the heat on the beach at Kinghorn in Fife in July 1966. Photo: Denis Straughan