UPDATE: Snow storm coming our way to morrow (Iceland)

Hey thor, are you implying that your snow is due to a global warming?

Snowstorms are common in Iceland with gale force winds.
Refreshing weather compared to the non weather in some areas of the world like California.

OP, make sure you have more supplies than you think you need. Saved us a lot of trouble during Superstorm Sandy, when stores, banks and gas stations were closed for days. Stay safe and warm!

We could tell Al Gore though. Maybe he could set a tax so that we will not see snow storms anymore.

90% of Iceland is very desolate and not fit for human habitation. It is a windy and cold place in the north Atlantic. In addition to the often extreme weather the island is highly volcanic and prone to earthquaqes. Despite all this it is my favorite place on earth.

I've visited Iceland and loved it. Bathed in the blue lagoon, visited the plant created to use the warm water from beneath, clubbed in Reykjavik.

You'll survive this snow as we just survived our great snow storm recently. We like it. Give us snow storms please! :))

i think its more linked to the magnetic pole shift and the jet-stream

Is this what happens when a country jails its bankers??? Just askin'...

90 mph wind gust smashing Malin head and parts of Western Ireland at moment. Is this the same low pressure system that will smash Iceland?

yea its a part of the same system

guess it's because the judgment was ludicrous. they were supposed to get 5 1/2 years but got 9 months and 6 months Suspended and will just do community service

Say goodbye to your power soon, mates.

Thought that. Winds caming down to arond 60mph now. Huge gusts in NW Scotland still.

xc weather [link to www.xcweather.co.uk]

Wow beautiful, especially with the Christmas Tree lights. I've never been in snow before, hope it remains bearable for you OP.

Sigh,

Fucking americans.

yea i know, its been a wet snow and now its down to or under 0°c so it will freeze and put stress on the power lines so it will not come as a surprise and with the wind picking up its sooner than later

wow. stay safe icelanders. been there - amazing place, loved it! even if there was only a 5 minute chink of sunlight the whole 5 days i was there

hehe yea it is. well we'll get through this in no time :) we got a early warning so most of us are prepared.

Fecking hate that. That is worse weatehr for electricity supply sludge turning freezing and easier to knock down power lines under weight. Hope electric survives. And with the wind that is heading ur way

there was a power loss in 2 towns in west fjords Ísafjörður and Bolungarvík but they manage to put it back on

Last Edited by Þór on 12/28/2012 07:55 PM

Lamppost defeated

In Miðstræti at Bolungarvík a lamppost that has been struggling to stay upright in the weather which have been going on in the Northwest over the past days.

It was Halldóra Jónasdóttir who watched the pole fall across the street and took a picture of the lamppost.

[link to vikari.is]

Are you feeling the winds yet? You might get a squall line that passed through with the cold front pushing into North half of Ireland.

no wind yet down here in south-west, im at Vogar--> [link to nat.is]

Forecast I looked at just now shows winds under 10mph in Reykjavik. Hmmm.

look at this got few places with no wind at all [link to en.vedur.is]

uhmm not the best example there mate.. that's a pretty big and diverse state, right at the pacific.

Like they say, you can go skiing in the morning and get a tan at the beach in the afternoon.

Text forecast

Weather outlook

North and northeast wind, 20 to 33 m/s in the northwest and west part and snow, strongest wind in Vestfirðir and in southern part of Snæfellsnes. Variable wind 5 to 13 in the southeast and east and rain or sleet. Temperature near and over zero degrees, but gradually becoming frost in the northwest and west part. North 15 to 23 m/s widely tonight and until noon. Snow or snowshowers in the north but mostly dry in the south. Frost 1 to 7 degrees.
Forecast made: 29.12.2012 10:02. Valid until: 30.12.2012 18:00.

Weather forecast for the next several days

On Monday (New Year's Eve Day): North and northwest 5 to 13 m/s strongest in the northeast part. Snowshowers in the north, but elsewhere fair. Frost widely 2 to 7 degrees C. On Tuesday: Light winds and fair in most parts, but becoming cloudy in south and west parts in the afternoon. Frost 1 to 12 degrees, coldest inland. On Wednesday and Thursday: Easterly or variable wind. Mostly dry in the north, elsewhere intermittent snow or sleet and rain in the southernmost part. Frost 3 to 10 degrees in the north, elsewhere 0 to 5 degrees and above zero degrees in the southernmost part. On Friday: Southerly wind with rain and becoming warmer.
Forecast made: 29.12.2012 09:41. Valid until: 05.01.2013 12:00.

General synopsis

JUST S OF HORNAFJÖRÐUR IS A 947MB LOW MOVING NE, 150KM SW OF REYKJANES IS A 950MB LOW MOV E. OVER GREENLAND IS A 1020MB HIGH.
[link to en.vedur.is]

Blizzard weather is now in the Northwest and no travel weather. In west fjords the rescue squad has in enough to spin the roof tiles have been blown off buildings, runs loosening and trashcans on the run. Then floating dock loosened but has been fix it.

It is expected that a storm in the country today. The weather is the worst in the Northwest, where the wind speed 20-33 meters per second while another 10-20. The weather will peak Northwest afternoon and will have the most wind in the Northwest and the southern village. The weather will be deteriorating throughout the North and West, as later in the day.

Weather is deteriorating in the capital later today

The metropolitan area is looking for growing Northeast and it is expected that wind will reach about 18-28 meters per second late in the day with a soft snow or sleet. Wind will be the most in Kjalarnes, which is expected that the wind will reache 40 m / s in the middle of day.

Roads are widely closed in the north.Blowing Snow with little visibility all day. East the north wind is slower, 13-18 m / s, while the mountain roads above 200-300 meters and slush in the lowlands. Distinction wind and heat will be mostly in the north, but north-east cools down through the night. Light snow on the mountain roads west of the country and slush in the lowlands.

All roads closed in the Northwest

No traveling weather in the Northwest, all roads closed or impassable. Súðarvíkurhlíð, Eyrarhlíð, Botnsdalur, Breiðdalur and Flat Eyrarvegur are closed due to avalanche danger and Steingrímsfjarðarheiði has björgunarsveitarfólk helping drivers who have been in trouble.

Widely slush and heavy in movement in the South

In the South is widely slush or some black ice. It is snowfall on Hellisheiði and congestion. As the slush on Reykjanesbraut as most roads in the Southwest. But there's been shoveling.

Snowstorm in Snæfellsnes

Storms are widely in. Fróðárheiði is impassable and there is a snowstorm. In Holtavörðuheiði is black ice and storms, but storms and snow in Brattabrekka. Svínadalur is impassable.

Storms in Húnavatnssýslu.

Siglufjarðarvegur was shut off quickly because of avalanche danger and Olafsfjardarmuli likewise. Storms in Héðinsfirði. Both the Öxnadalsheiði and Víkurskarði's snowstorm and incapable, but because of weather appearance fails to shovel until today.

Blizzard is on Fljótsheiði, and Hólasandur is impassable of as east of Hálsum and Hófaskarði. There are no news for the roas at lake Mývatn where there is bad weather and no services today.

No electricity is in most of the west fjords.

[link to www.ruv.is]

The rooftop on a barn with 70 animals is about to collapse but the rescue squad is on the site trying to save the roof and animals.

[link to www.mbl.is]

LOL You forgot fornication. That's #4.