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,
21. All the fun of the fair
Crowds of holiday-makers on Portobello Beach in 1952 with rollercoaster and funfair in the background. | TSPL
22. Bombs away
A beachcomber with bombs he found on the beach in Lunan Bay , in Angus, in August 1963. | TSPL
23. A grand day out
Children from Niddrie Day Nursery, in Edinburgh, during an outing to Gullane Beach in July 1959. | TSPL