sounds like that movie Day After Tomorrow!!!
 
 
 
POLAR JETSTREAM STOLE OUR SUMMER Jul 16 2004

 
By Patrick Mulchrone
 
 
A DODGY polar jetstream is causing Britain's dismal summer, weather experts said yesterday.

An unexplained kink in the system has forced it further south than normal - bringing cool days, wind and rain.

A Met Office spokesman said yesterday: "The big storm last week was the result of the deepest part of the kink."

This time last year Britain was enjoying a heatwave. This year it is dull.

Much of Europe is suffering too. Heavy snowfalls have hit Germany's Bavarian Alps at a time when tourists are normally hiking in the sunshine.

In Denmark, the average rainfall for June was a third above normal.

And BBC weather expert Philip Eden said: "I've been in France at Limousin where last year it was blisteringly hot, but we have had the fire on."

He said sunshine could still be found in southern Europe: "You would have to go to the Costa del Sol, southern Italy, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus."
 

 
 
ST SWITHIN CASTING A BIG CLOUD

FOLKLORE says if it rains on St Swithin's Day, July 14, it won't stop for 40 days - and it did.

Britain woke yesterday to cloud, drizzle and temperatures barely over 15C. The same day last year saw thermometers hit 33C.

The saying, inspired by a 9th century monk, is: "St Swithin's Day, if it does rain, full 40 days, it will remain; St Swithin's Day, if it be fair, for 40 days, t'will rain no more."

The rot began in June, where two days play were washed out at Wimbledon. July has had barely three days of sun and beaches are empty. But there was hope as the PA Weathercentre said: "We shouldn't write off the summer just yet."