Daffodils in December and swallows in February - how climate change is sending our seasons haywire Joe Shute, the Telegraph’s resident weather watcher, reports on how climate change is sending our seasons haywire 3 June 2021 • 11:05am Joe Shute at Stanage Edge in the Peak District Credit: India Hobson Among my most treasured books is a Ladybird series published in the early 1960s and entitled What To Look For. Written by the biologist Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson and illustrated by renowned wildlife artist Charles Tunnicliffe, each book is devoted to a different season and portrays a world in perfect balance: weather, wildlife and people all in equilibrium.