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Photos Of The Week: #GVpics Instagram Contest
Dear Instagrammers, photographers and readers. Thank you for all of your wonderful submissions in our #GVpics Instagram contest. It is always such a joy scrolling through the wonderful photographs of buildings, animals, venues and trips around the country. The pictures for this…
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There And Back Again: Snowmobiling In The Land Of Mordor
In the land of Iceland, in the heart of 101, I meet my fellowship companion Art Bicnick—the photographer—outside Grapevine HQ at 9:45am on a brisk Saturday morning. I am burdened with one small hangover, and one large quest: to travel to Langjökull…
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Hardcore Icelandic Teens Play Football In Hail Storm
Some people (read: sane people) might look at a snow and hail storm and think, maybe I should just take a nap, wait for this to blow over. But some look at it as an opportunity for vigorous exercise. Coach Lárus Rúnar Grétarsson…
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The Best Of Iceland On Instagram: This Week’s #GVpics
What a week! We experienced some stormy weather, northern lights, and Icelandic daily life in the freezing cold—all of which is perfectly portrayed in the stunning submissions our dear readers and Instagram enthusiasts submitted (via the #GVpics hashtag). Landscapes dominated the entries…
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Photos: Winter Roads Of Southern Iceland
Grapevine’s trusty in-house photographer Art Bicnick took a drive around the south coast recently to visit the Vatnajökull ice cave. Along the way, he encountered some extreme wintery conditions, which you can see below. “These were taken on the way to the…
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Don’t Ask Nanna: About Being Cold
Dear Nanna, My wife is Icelandic and this week it snowed a lot here in Copenhagen. Since the bad weather my wife has been complaining a lot about being cold and I tell her – but you’re Icelandic! Of course I am just…
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Good Chance Of A Snowy Christmas This Year!
The weather forecast for the Christmas season looks pretty good, if you happen to like snow. Meteorologist Þorsteinn Jónsson told Vísir that, according to his estimations, the entire country could get to experience snow for Christmas. Many parts of the country may…
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Whose Fence Is This? And Other Storm News Stories
It would seem the only thing in the news yesterday and today is the #rvkstormpocalypse, so here’s a quick round up of all the varying ways in which the storm has bummed Iceland. One man was sad to see his car destroyed by a…
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Snowpocalypse: Police Advise Grafarvogur Residents To Stay Indoors
Heavy snow has necessitated the police telling all residents of Grafarvogur and Grafarholt to stay indoors. The capital area police posted the advisory on their Facebook page, warning people living in the east Reykjavík neighbourhood that the weather is still not cooperating.…
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Don’t Ask Nanna: About Snow
Hi Nanna, This snowpocalypse is really cramping our vacation style, it seems like traveling around by car is pretty risky and getting anywhere by foot is impossible. Do you have any tips for getting around? We’d really like to see Jökulsárlón or…
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City Pleads: Liberate Trash Cans From Snow
While the blanket of snow caused by the snowpocalypse is a sight to behold, this winter wonderland has become a nuisance for the city as trash builds up, reports RÚV. City Hall therefore asks all Reykjavík residents to shovel a path to…
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We’ve Literally Never Had This Much Snow In December
The snowmaggedon of the past week has broken all of Reykjavík’s records in recent history for snowfall in December and we’re only three days in, reports RÚV. So far 42 centimetres of snow has fallen, 9 cm more than the previous record…
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Snowpocalypse 2015: UPDATE
The Icelandic Met Office warns that we are only experiencing the beginning of the deluge of snow and winds that are ransacking the country at large. According to a report posted only minutes ago, the snowfall that has blanketed the capital area…
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Stay Home! Read A Book! SNOWMAGEDDON Is Here!
Question: are you reading this at whatever place you intend to spend most of today? If not, here are some bad news: It doesn’t look like you’re going anywhere for the next few hours. See, there’s this storm raging outside, and it’s…
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Well That Winter Weather You Wanted Is Here
The Meteorological Office has warned of a snow storm in the northwest of Iceland and south Iceland this morning, reports Vísir. In fact, the Met Office predicts stormy winter weather all week. On Tuesday winds of up to 15-23 metres per second…
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Don’t Ask Nanna: About The Weather
Dear Nanna, First of all, I absolutely love your column. Second, where’s all the damn snow? I moved to Iceland because it’s supposed to be cold. Now it’s almost the middle of November, and it’s 5 degrees outside. I heard you guys…
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Summer Storm Warning In Effect
The current weather gives little indication that we celebrated the first day of summer last week, with strong winds across the country and snowstorms particularly affecting North and East Iceland. In fact, Vísir reports that April hasn’t had such low temperatures for…
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So Much For Spring, Iceland!
Satellite pictures courtesy of NASA show that April is no guarantee of spring in Iceland and that in fact the weather is comparable to last April, which also sucked. The University of Iceland’s Earth Science Institute posted two satellite images of Iceland…
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Icelanders Consider Naming Winter
This year’s winter has been so fierce that there is a discussion underway to name it, reports RÚV. Suggestions range from “Vindaveturinn mikli” (The Great Windy Winter) to “Rokrassgat” (Windy Butthole). Historically it has been common to name great Icelandic winters, a…
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Mo’ Snow, Mo’ Problems: Man Loses Roof And Other Storm News
The storm that swept through Iceland caused a number of problems for people and services yesterday, though perhaps no problem quite so startling as the the issue of the flying roof. BB.is reports that the roof of a house in Ísafjörður was…
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Listen, Duck, and Run: How to Avoid Falling Ice and Snow in Reykjavík
Week 6 Let me be bold: the weather in Iceland changes often. I’m not trying to start a controversy. I’ll leave that to people discussing deep-water oil drilling (what could possibly happen? I mean, god put it there for us to have). The…
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Brace Yourselves For More Bad Weather
Yet another storm is expected to roll into Southwest Iceland at around noon today. The bad weather will continue through the night, eventually moving northeast across the country with winds averaging 20 m/s, according to the Icelandic Met Office. Visibility is expected…
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Storm Traps Over 200 People In Gas Station
More than 200 people are stuck in Staðarskáli gas station in Northwest Iceland due to a large storm which closed Holtavörðuheiði road, reports Vísir. Around 80 people have been offered a place to sleep at the local school, Reykjaskóli, and some families…