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Public Encouraged To Limit Travel As Weather Intensifies
Updated February 25 at 14:09: The Icelandic Met Office has now issued a yellow weather warning for the capital area region. The Suðurnes and capital region police departments have asked the public to limit unnecessary risk today, February 25, as snowfall is expected…
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Cyclist Hit By Car In Reykjavík, Incident Caught On Video
A driver was seen hitting a cyclist with a car near Spöngin in Reykjavík yesterday, reports Vísir. The video, recorded by Pétur Jóhannesson, who was driving in the area around 16:00 on October 29 when the incident took place, is spreading through…
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PHOTOS: First Snow In Reykjavík
Until today, Reykjavík has never before seen this much snow in October. We asked our readers to send us photos of their day in the snow. Here are some of them. Mavick Adlawan says, “Went out for a little walk to Krónan…
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Police Urge Public To Seek Shelter As First Snow Falls In Reykjavík
Updated October 28, 14:00. The Capital Area Police have issued a statement urging everyone to seek shelter before 15:00, on Tuesday October 28. An orange weather warning has been announced by the Icelandic Met Office during Reykjavík’s biggest October snowfall in history.…
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Heavy Snowfall Expected This Week
Heavy snowfall is expected this week, and the Icelandic Met Office anticipates a considerable amount of snow in the capital area over the next few days, reports RÚV. Meteorologist Sigurður Þ. Ragnarsson says that residents of the capital area may well have…
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17 Sheep Missing After Storm
Seventeen sheep and lambs remain missing in Skíðadal since yesterday, reports RÚV. The Dalvík Search and Rescue Team helped recover most of the flock from the mountain in collaboration with local farmers. According to the owner, no animals have been found dead…
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Winter Driving For Dummies
The Útlendingur’s ongoing guide to getting shit done This winter is wintering hard. In fact, I’m typing this article as an orange weather warning morphs into a red weather warning and the Icelandic Met Office promises violent storms will stretch across the…
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Do Shit: Survive Icelandic Winter
The Grapevine’s ongoing guide to getting shit done Winter is officially upon us. While the news is trying to gaslight us all into believing that November was unseasonably warm — either that or it was written by someone who spent the month…
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Dettifoss Buried Under Snow
The northern viewing area at Dettifoss waterfall has been closed due to heavy snow accumulation on the trails leading to the falls. This was announced in a Facebook post by Vatnajökull National Park. The area has experienced significant snowfall over the past…
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Road Closures As First Snow Falls
Thursday, October 12, people in Iceland woke up to snow-covered ground, as the first flurries of the season started falling the night before. City of Reykjavík employees commenced de-icing measures as early as 03:30 the previous night, RÚV reports. Road closures are…
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Snowfall And Chilling Temperatures In Snæfell and Askja
Snow covered ground around Snæfell mountain on July 5, reports RÚV. Conditions are also quite wintry and cold near Askja. The park ranger states that the temperature has dropped unusually fast following mild weather in June. There has been a considerable drop…
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Snow Came Early To Siglufjörður
The streets of Siglufjörður were covered with snow this morning, reports RÚV. There is even more snow up in the mountains, but it’s unknown how long the snow will stay as frost is not forecasted until next week. [su_pullquote]Titans of Icelandic photography…
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VIDEO: An Hour And A Half Just To Get Out Of The House
While many capital area residents are likely feeling a sense of relief that the recent spate of warm winds and rain has washed away nearly all of the snow, things are quite different in other parts of the country right now, as…
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This Weekend In Weather; Warm, Windy and Maybe A Little Bit Wet
In what comes as no surprise to anyone, the weather this weekend will fluctuate as usual. It’s expected to warm up on Friday and Saturday but in typical Icelandic fashion, it’ll drop right back down to freezing with some light rain. On…
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This Week In Weather: Rising Temperatures With Some Mild Snow Showers
After a cold but bright weekend, the Meteorological Office predicts a right southerly change of wind direction that will potentially bring some mild snow showers to parts of the country later in the week. The temperature will slowly rise above freezing as…
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Winter Is Coming…
Winter is well on its way and snow has started falling in some parts of Iceland over night. A Yellow Warning has been issued for snow in the East of the country. With sleet in the North East and snowfall expected on…
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This Week’s Weather Forecast: A Warm Weekend Ahead
The weather over the next few days will bring snow, rain and a whole lot of wind, according to the Icelandic Met Office. Today (Monday 21st) a South Westerly wind will bring rain, with snow in some parts of the North. The…
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Four-Day Battle With a Five-Meter-Deep Snowdrift
All in all it took four days to break through a thick snowdrift which accumulated over the course of the winter on the road into Mjóafjörður. The road is now open again after having been closed since around October. Foreman at the…
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Wind, Snow, Rain And Yellow Warnings? It Must Be Spring
It’s looking like the perfect weather for a quarantine this weekend. Following this week’s arrival of the harbinger of spring, the golden plover, readers can look forward to rain, snow, and strong winds. Welcome to spring Iceland! Yellow warnings have been issued…
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Wind, Rain, And Snow Throughout Northern Iceland
In case you didn’t have enough reasons to stay inside, the weather is supposed to get nasty over today and tomorrow. At the time of this writing, a yellow warning is in effect for most of the northern part of the country,…
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Road Closures Across The Country, Blizzard Across East Iceland Forecast
There are multiple road closures all across Iceland today, and where roads are not impassable, almost all of them are difficult at best to travel on. At the same time, a blizzard is bearing down on East Iceland today, and is expected…
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Storm Days: Frozen Cars, Avalanche Warnings, Power Outages, Snow Tunnels
The latest weather alert from the Icelandic Met Office shows that storm conditions will persist over the entirety of the country through tomorrow afternoon. While the yellow zones will see winds from 15 to 23 metres per second with blowing snow and…
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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 snow blowing and falling in heavy flakes. Rain is also on its way. As night falls, temperatures will drop to around 1°…