Strange – Summer in May – 30 degrees C today
Late evening biking by the sea – not a cloud in four weeks
Swimmers everywhere, enjoying the coolness of it
Past the old Blekinge cottages – just have to stop for a photo. Love these…
Picking buttercups
Back at our own beach – 23 degrees C, still 10 degrees more than normal temperature
Completely calm sunset and not a mosquito – yet
Bathing – water 18 degrees. Lovely of course, but
– I do not know if I like it – or not. This month of May was the hottest and driest ever in Sweden. And we are not alone. In July this could have been possible though…
On the news they said our newborn storks will starve to death, and I guess that applies to many birds and other animals who only eat living things. There are no frogs, and the worms are digging deep to survive. The birds cannot reach them.
Please let there be rain. And, what about Africa.
Leya 
😮 Oh my. We had a huge drought last year, I remember no mosquitoes. It was too dry for them. This year green persists since there was plenty of rain. Now the heat is starting to build. We shall see. It’s terrible to hear that birds might die!
It is – I think about it every day.
It sounds like you are having some Australian weather. A very early summer. The photographs are so very beautiful so it is always a delight to visit your blog. Can you tell me about the Blekinge cottages? They are archetypal Sweden to me! The absence of mosquitoes is good for people, but bad for the creatures that thrive on them as food source. People are becoming aware of the integral nature of our ecosystems. One interaction influences another. We are having as usual, diametrically opposite weather. Very chilly morning for May, I have had my fire on several mornings – almost unheard of till mid July- August! I don’t complain about the cold though, as it feels a little more like my beloved Scandinavia. 30 degrees is warm but is it also humid, or a dry heat? It felt quite humid this time in Norway 2 years ago, I was sweating!
It is rather humid right now – sweating all the time. Tomorrow it is going to be 32…they say. Dangerous for old people – and difficult for me. I stay indoors between 10 am and 8 pm. 25 is enough for me…
Interesting that you have colder weather than usual! Similarities.
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6gloftsstuga
Blekinge cottages often look like this, and they believe the style comes from Germany and southern Scandinavia. The most typical thing is the difference in height between the part where people live and the ”loft” where grain or hay was kept. The style is typical for Southern Sweden. Glad you like them!
Southern Sweden? Was that after the Danish rule? Or too far north for that?
As for the humidity, I am well versed in dealing with that, but even then ,it is difficult to take. Plenty of cool drinks, ice blocks made of frozen fruit juice, hang a wet towel in front of a fan,and sit in front of it, keep active only in the morning and cool evening. Mexican style siestas through the middle of the day!!! And keep out of the sun as much as possible, which it sounds like you are doing. I remember feeling quite stifled in Denmark one fiendishly hot summer in 2004, because the buildings are so well insulated. I felt like I was suffocating. There was no through breezes. Hope the weather becomes less humid for you soon.
Thanks for the link. Very interesting reading. I so love that style of architecture. And it brought back memories of Skansen.
Sorry about the typos. I blame the tablet. First sentence was supposed to be: Beautiful pictures! And ”storlek” is supposed to be storks. We saw baby storks at Fulltofta in 2014 and I hope they will have a good year for the stork babies. Happy weekend!
OK, now I understand! thank you! But rain is essential to their survival.
Thank you! I hope for rain too. Much too dry in Skåne and the rest of the country too. So lets hope for rain.
Strange weather indeed Leya. We do not have it as hot as you now for as long. But it’s been on average about 24 degrees all week. If we got this weather in July or August we’d feel blessed. But now like you i worry about how Nature will be able to respond.
Let us hope the weather goes back to normal soon.
Vackra naturbilder från Sverige!! Misstänker att både natur och människa just nu skulle önska ett par kraftiga regnskurar 😀
Tack – det stämmer bra det…
Climate change is a real worry. I hope you get rain soon. We had very little rain during May and now it is winter and our dry season. I’m watering the garden almost daily
Some plants I have to water twice a day – and they still don’t look quite all right.
Yes in the height of summer I have morning and evening watering, but never as good for the plants as rain
Wise words, A C, it is very worrying,
We live in unstable times.
Sure do
It’s all very strange, isn’t it? Lovely to bask in the warmth but when you look beneath the surface, a little worrying. Entirely different here. After 1 sunny weekend we’re back to ‘normal’. 🙂 🙂 Lovely, lucid photos!
Thank you, Jo! Back to normal sounds great…
Wondering about the climate change here too.. Lets hope for a balanced temperarure and a fresh nature
I am hoping for this too – trying my best to believe it is possible. Doing what little I can to help.
What beautiful places! Dreamy!
Thank you – it is in the evenings and mornings.
We also deserve rain, still 26 degrees at midnight here in Berlin
Yes, I can see on the weather maps that we are not alone in this – sending you some rain if I find it somewhere!
I wish you nice fresh rain in the right amount right now.
Very kind thoughts – thank you!