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Company Leads Tourists On Snowmobile Tour On A Glacier, Requiring Rescue From Storm
39 tourists, including several children, needed to be rescued from atop Langjökull glacier yesterday, RÚV reports, when their snowmobile tour…
Flights And Buses Cancelled Due To Bad Weather
by Inês Pereira
Due to a major low pressure centre hitting the country, a lot of flights and most bus routes outside of…
Storm Weather Will Remain Until Wednesday
by Inês Pereira
The Icelandic Met Office has painted Iceland’s map with yellow weather alerts, sparing only the north of the country. The…
Reindeer On The Road
Drivers in the east and southeast are urged to exercise caution as there have been a considerable number of reindeer…
More Than 100 Horses Dead in December Storm Aftermath
by Inês Pereira
In December, a cyclone and snowstorm swept the northwest of Iceland. The weather caught a lot of people by surprise,…
Yellow And Orange Warnings For The Weekend
The Icelandic Meteorological Office has issued orange and yellow warnings for the entire country to go in effect on Saturday,…
NORTHERN LIGHTS IN ICELAND! Everything you need to know!
When can I see the northern lights in Iceland? To experience the northern lights in Iceland you might want to…
Where To Catch Your New Year’s Bonfire In Reykjavik
The weather forecast for midnight on New Year’s Eve is predicting rain, but the evening looks to be cloudy with…
New Year’s Eve Weather: Very Cloudy, Very Rainy, Maybe Some Snow
New Year’s Eve might not be very ideal fireworks weather, if the current weather forecast is anything to go by….
Fireworks: “Never Environmentally Friendly Nor Harmless”, Environment Agency Says
Pollution from fireworks on New Year’s Eve between 2018 and 2019 was up from the previous New Year’s, RÚV reports,…
Avalanche Closes Part Of Main Road And Weather Conditions Intensifies
by Inês Pereira
Yesterday’s severe weather conditions caused some damage around Iceland. In the north, an avalanche fell in Ljósavatn. Thankfully no one…
Icelandic Farmer Bravely Saves Horses From Freezing After The Storm
by Inês Pereira
This morning, Magnús Ásgeir Elíasson, a farmer from Hvammstangi, had a sudden feeling that he should check on his horses….
Weekend Forecast: Cold As Hell
The temperature will drop to -20°C in some parts of the country today. These cold temperatures are expected to continue…
Boy Missing After Falling Into River While Helping Farmer Clear Snow
A young boy fell into the river of Núpá in North Iceland last night, RÚV reports, while helping a farmer…
Cyclone In Iceland: Roads Closed Pretty Much Everywhere
Yesterday’s cyclone across Iceland has begun to lose steam in the west of the country, but not without leaving behind…
VIDEO: Þór Rides Into The Storm!
This morning, the coast guard’s patrol ship Þór made contact with the massive storm that is expected to hit us…
Icelanders Nervous On Social Media Over Storm Forecast
Icelanders have been talking endlessly about the coming storm on Twitter. It’s all over Vísir, Rúv, and other news media…
Snow, Rain, And Wind Sweep Iceland
Brace yourselves, folks, we got a wild storm coming up. Those of you who were up early will remember the…
What Are Icelanders Talking About?
The single most important story of the past month has been the Fishrot Files, or as they call it in…
Temperatures Dropping, Snow Falling, Almost Like It’s Winter
Experts at the Icelandic Met Office are predicting that temperatures will continue to drop over the coming days, after some…
December Marked By Record Temperatures In Iceland
by Inês Pereira
It appears the beginning of winter has been kind to Icelanders. Experts predicted a warm air mass would bring some…