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 just last year (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,
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. Taps aff
Teens stripped to the waist and in bare feet crossing Princes Street in summer 1976. Photo: National World

. Making a splash
Rhona Heeps and Stewart Somerville were the first children into Portobello open-air pool when it opened for the heatwave in summer 1976. Photo: National World

. Catching some rays
Girls sunbathing in Princes Street Gardens during a heatwave in Edinburgh in June 1960. Photo: Unknown

. Donkey derby
Tourists enjoying the heatave of summer 1961 with the donkeys on St Andrews Beach. Photo: Unknown

1. Making a splash
Rhona Heeps and Stewart Somerville were the first children into Portobello open-air pool when it opened for the heatwave in summer 1976. Photo: National World

2. Catching some rays
Girls sunbathing in Princes Street Gardens during a heatwave in Edinburgh in June 1960. Photo: Unknown

3. Donkey derby
Tourists enjoying the heatave of summer 1961 with the donkeys on St Andrews Beach. Photo: Unknown

4. 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