 Temperature extremes have ranged from , at Abbotsinch in December 1995 to

In the 1950s, the population of the City of Glasgow area peaked at 1,089,000.Glasgow was then one of the most densely populated cities in the world.After the 1960s, clearances of poverty-stricken inner city areas like the Gorbals and relocation to "new towns" such as East Kilbride and Cumbernauld led to population decline.