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Weather forecast
Weather forecast for the next 24 hours
West 5 to 13 m/s, cloudy and slight precipitation, strongest in the south but slighter and sleet or snow in the northeast. Westerly wind, 3 to 10 m/s by morning. Cloudy and mostly dry in the western part, some snow in the headlands in the northeast during the day, otherwise fair. Temperature around freezing point in the north and east tonight, otherwise plus 1 to 7 degr. C, warmest in the south.
Forecast made 15.03.2010 00:48
If the map and the text forecast differs, then the text forecast applies
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Preliminary results
Earthquakes
Earthquakes during last 48 hours. at 04:15 GMT
Preliminary results
Biggest earthquakes during the last 48 hours
| Size | Time | Quality | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.6 | 13 Mar 04:53:16 | Checked | 7.6 km SW of Básar |
| 2.4 | 13 Mar 04:53:16 | 90.0 | 6.1 km WSW of Básar |
| 2.2 | 13 Mar 05:48:17 | Checked | 3.2 km WNW of Básar |
| 2.0 | 13 Mar 18:41:31 | 72.9 | 11.4 km S of Kistufell |
| 1.9 | 13 Mar 07:33:26 | 57.3 | 7.1 km S of Goðabunga |
| 1.8 | 13 Mar 14:39:05 | 90.0 | 6.1 km SSW of Básar |
Hydrology
Average flow and temperature last 24 hours
| River | Place | Flow | Water temperature |
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| Norðurá | Stekkur | 47.9 m³/s | |
| Austari Jökulsá | Skatastaðir | 24.3 m³/s | |
| Jökulsá á Fjöllum | Grímsstaðir | 98.3 m³/s | 3.9 °C |
| Eldvatn | Eystri-Ásar | 49.0 m³/s | |
| Ölfusá | Selfoss | 455.0 m³/s | 4.0 °C |
News
Conference on earthquakes
An international conference on earthquakes, pre-earthquake processes and earthquake prediction research was held in the memory of Sigurður Th. Rögnvaldsson.
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Strong gales
A great storm passed over Iceland on October 9th and well into the following morning. IMO's web-site was heavily relied upon as a source of information.
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Earthquakes and pre-earthquake processes
An international conference on earthquakes, pre-earthquake processes and earthquake prediction research will be held in the memory of Sigurður Th. Rögnvaldsson, geophysicist, who died on 25th October 1999. He was highly respected in earthquake research in Iceland.
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Lecture on abrupt changes in summer sea ice extent
Dr. Bruno Tremblay gave a lecture on abrupt changes in summer sea ice extent in the Arctic Ocean at IMO's headquarters in Reykjavík, 28th August.
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Knowledge
The weather in Iceland 2009
The weather was very favourable in Iceland in 2009. The temperature was well above the 1961 to 1990 mean. This was the driest year in Reykjavík since 1995, but the wettest in Akureyri since 1991.
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New publications and research
- Earthquakes and pre-earthquake processes. Conference 30 October 2009. Abstracts (3,3 Mb)
- NIGS Glaciology Conference 29-31 October 2009. Abstracts (5,0 Mb)
- Icelandic perspectives on adaptation to climate change and variability. In Climate Sense (pdf 0.1 Mb)
- Jökulhlaups in Skaftá: A study of a jökulhlaup from the Western Skaftá cauldron in the Vatnajökull ice cap, Iceland (pdf 5,66 Mb)
- Attenuation relations for near- and farfield peak ground motion (PGV, PGA) and new magnitude estimates for large earthquakes in SW-Iceland (pdf 1,9 Mb)
- The Icelandic climate project of Jónas Hallgrímsson and the Icelandic Society of Letters in the 1840s (pdf 0,4 Mb)
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