Scotland had its forth hottest summer on record in 2021.
The Met Office has revealed some regions of Scotland - including the City of Glasgow where COP 26 will be held in November - had their hottest summer since records began back to 1884.
Other areas where temperatures peaked were in Clackmannan, Dunbartonshire, Perth and Kinross, Renfrewshire, Stirling and Falkirk, and West Lothian.
Scotland had a mean average temperature of 13.76C.
Northern Ireland experienced its third warmest summer on record (15.06°C) and also recorded its highest temperature with 31.3°C on July 21 at Castlederg in Tyrone.
The UK as a whole has had its ninth hottest summer on record, with an average of 15.28°C. This is the hottest summer for the UK since 2018.
However, conditions have not been consistent across the UK. The south-east corner of the UK also saw less sunshine than the long-term average.
The brightest and driest conditions were in the north west of the UK.
Head of the Met Office’s National Climate Information Centre, Dr Mark McCarthy, said: “Summer 2021 will be remembered very differently depending on where you are in the UK, with record-breaking warm conditions in parts of western Scotland and Northern Ireland, while in the south and east it’s been much duller and wetter.
"There have been several notable weather events through the summer, including a new temperature record for Northern Ireland and Storm Evert which brought strong winds and heavy rain across England and Wales and extreme rainfall in the south east.”
The Met Office said it is quite unusual for the highest temperature of August to occur in Scotland, but the suppressed temperatures in the south of England mean that 27.2°C recorded at Tyndrum on August 25 is the highest temperature recorded in the UK during August 2021, and is the lowest such value since August 2010.
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