THE Scottish summer is coming to an end.
Last week, almost a month's worth of rain fell in 12 hours in Lossiemouth, while Aberdeenshire saw winds of 50mph as the remnants of Hurricane Bertha hit the north of the country.
But every cloud has a silver lining.
In July, experts claimed that gingers could become extinct as a result of increasingly sunny skies above Scotland.
The gene that causes red hair is thought to be an evolutionary response to cloudy skies north of the border and allows inhabitants to get as much Vitamin D as possible.
If rising temperatures and blazing sunshine continued, it could have been major trouble for carrot tops within a few centuries.
A particular gene mutation that colours red hair and gives pale skin leaves DNA in skin cells more prone to be damaged by sunlight.
Only 1-2 per cent of the world’s population has red hair, but in Scotland this figure is about 13 per cent, with 650,000 people believed to have ginger hair.
A study last year revealed that up to 40 per cent of of the Scottish population are thought to carry the gene for both red hair and fair skin.
Edinburgh and the surrounding area was found to be the hot spot for the ginger gene with 40 per cent of the population believed to be carriers, while only 29 per cent of those in the North and West are believed to have the gene.
If both parents carry the recessive gene there is a 25 per cent chance that their child will be born with red hair.
Don't let the weather dampen your spirits, there's still loads of fun things to do in Scotland when it's rainy. Check out our list here.