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,
17. New arrivals
A group of visitors on the beach at Leven, Fife, in summer 1961. Photo: Unknown
18. Fun in the sun
Enjoying the sun at Portobello Outdoor Swimming Pool in July 1966. | National World
19. Taa-daa!
A little girl shows off her sandcastle on Portobello Beach in July 1965. Photo: Unknown
20. Taps aff
Teens stripped to the waist and in bare feet crossing Princes Street in summer 1976. Photo: Canva/Getty Images