{"id":25364,"date":"2020-05-08T11:19:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T09:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=25364"},"modified":"2020-05-08T11:19:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T09:19:24","slug":"3-swallows-dont-make-it-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=25364","title":{"rendered":"3 swallows don&#8217;t make it summer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was surprised yesterday to see my first swallows of 2020, 3 of them hunting in the garden for a few minutes. We&#8217;re experiencing the coldest weather this late in spring in my lifetime according to an article in the Trondheim newspaper yesterday, translating as &#8220;This burst of cold air from the North Pole is giving the coldest weather this late in the spring in 65 years&#8221;, my own arrival on this planet on 29th April 1955 coincided with this. In the UK &#8220;On the 17th May 1955, the heaviest SNOWFALL in London in May for about 100 years occurred when snow fell for 2-3 hours across practically the whole of England, accompanied by a widespread SEVERE GALE. One of the LATEST SNOWFALL events across southern England known&#8221;. I apologise for the disruption ;)<br \/>I&#8217;m one of the few who enjoy this weather as it means that my perennial vegetables grow slower and actually yield more over a longer period as it&#8217;s too cold for flowers to appear but perfect for leaf production!<br \/>I do feel sorry though for gardeners at higher elevations who will be getting a lot of snow this week :(<br \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25365\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Kaldluft.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Kaldluft.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Kaldluft-294x300.jpg 294w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Kaldluft-768x783.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Kaldluft-640x653.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The swallows probably arrived on my birthday when the temperature crept over 10C! In this video they were flying over a maple tree whose flowers were trying to open! The 8 day forecast is just as cold with not a single day above 10C!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-25364-1\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/First-Swallows.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/First-Swallows.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/First-Swallows.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25366\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/P1000021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"736\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/P1000021.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/P1000021-300x276.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/P1000021-768x707.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/P1000021-640x589.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised yesterday to see my first swallows of 2020, 3 of them hunting in the garden for a few minutes. We&#8217;re experiencing the coldest weather this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2147,2843],"tags":[3552],"class_list":["post-25364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-spring","category-weather","tag-swallows"],"views":2096,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25368,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25364\/revisions\/25368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}