Weather.com - Damien Carrington, The Guardian, 10/7/12
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge arrives in the rain at Eton Dorney for the rowing on day 4 of the London 2012 Paralympic Games at Eton Dorney on Sept. 2 in Windsor, England. (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
The United Kingdom's dismal recent summers can be blamed on a substantial warming of the North Atlantic ocean in the late 1990s, according to new scientific research.
The shift has resulted in rain-soaked weather systems being driven into northern Europe, increasing summer rainfall by about a third.
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