The polar jetscream is a high speed wind carrying cold air from north of Alaska. It veers south creating a low pressure area to the west of Britain. This brings unsettled weather to northern Europe. Southern Europe escapes, enjoying its usual hot summer weather.
A dodgy polar jetsteam 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 where 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."
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I am wearing denim jeans and jacket most of my holiday in south of England and it was recently a Hurricane storm at Hastings, East Sussex, and the pier at Brighton, Sussex collapsed as a result!!!! What a shocking weather.
A dodgy polar jetsteam 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 where 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."
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I am wearing denim jeans and jacket most of my holiday in south of England and it was recently a Hurricane storm at Hastings, East Sussex, and the pier at Brighton, Sussex collapsed as a result!!!! What a shocking weather.
and its my hubby and girls' turn to have their sub-tropicial holiday in Queensland soon, I believe they will get a tan!
It won't be warm until mid-November!
See what he said, Cherigirly? 
when she saw us wore short & summer T-shirt (“beach” outfit) during HOT weather. She feel uncomfortable with that situation because it's too hot for her so she has to take her thick sweater off but still the same. Poor Red Rum. (She was on her way from England to see us last May-June 2003). Yes, I’m agreed that the weather in England is not quite good.
