If you think our summer's not been too good... Pictures
The little video half way down (worth a watch) of the people on the beach as the massive black cloud slowly rolls over them looks and sounds like the Vogon fleet arriving to destroy Earth for the new intergalactic highway!
We just don't have real weather here do we. Ours is puny, second rate, non-scary weather. 
The rain was quite scary yesterday.
What were you doing in Helsinki, Furbs?
... that reminds me about the communist chap from Finland who looked out of his little hut one morning at the sky and said 'It looks like rain' and his wife said 'what ARE you on about Rudi, it is a lovely day,' and he tut-tutted and he said.....
"Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear!"
I do think that very first piccy REALLY SCARY I glad I not there, it do look like it should be the Great Wave wot drowned Numenor, wergh....................