Is the North Atlantic Current Slowing down? Or is it even there?

Hi well i've become very interested in this over the past year and the more and more i watch the current the less prevalent it becomes even between december and now it has slowed down and by looking at the latest images it looks as though its barely there now? http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/ofs/viewer.shtml?-natl-cur-0-small-rundate=latest It seems like theres a bit of it there but i doubt that would really affect us? Will it ever return again or will it keep slowing down until its no longer exists? I've noticed as well that over the past four years each winter is lasting longer and colder for example the winter before last winter was cold but it only stayed below freezing for three weeks this winter was even colder and we even had about two foot of snow which lasted about 6weeks that is extremely long for the uk (central-north of it) and something has to had caused this. May it have been the gulf stream? And if it keeps slowing down will this winter be even colder? This summer is really cold too (well here in the north (ni) anyway) we had snow on the hills (500m) three weeks ago which is unheard of in ni in the summer! People are saying that this winter will be even colder due to the jetstream being south of us (its mean't to be north of us in the summer) and the low solar activity is this just a myth or is it likely? i hope so!