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Weather forecast for the next 24 hours

Variable winds, 3-8 m/s and mostly fair.
Light variable winds tomorrow. Patches of clouds and ligth precipitation in the north but mostly fair and dry elsewhere.
Temperature around frezzing, but upto 7 deg. C, by the southcoast.
Forecast made 04.12.2022 21:51

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Earthquakes

Earthquakes during last 48 hours. at 04 Dec 23:05 GMT

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Biggest earthquakes during the last 48 hours

Size	Time	Quality	Location
3.5	03 Dec 12:49:10	Checked	2.6 km NNW of Reykjanestá
2.9	03 Dec 07:51:51	Checked	9.9 km E of Hamarinn
2.4	03 Dec 04:36:59	Checked	3.8 km WSW of Dreki

Specialist remark

Yesterday at 12:49 pm an earthquake of M3.5 was detected some 3 km N of Reykjanestá. Few minor aftershocks have followed. Earthquakes are common in the area.
Written by a specialist at 04 Dec 05:13 GMT

Week overview 14 November - 20 November

Last week was quiet with only around 350 detected and located earthquakes in the country, slightly fewer than the week before. Only one event was above magnitude 3, a M 3.3 in Mýrdalsjökull on Saturday Nov. 19. Seismicity is still observed at Herðubreið, north of Vatnajökull, where a seismic swarm started in the evening of Oct. 22. The activity has decreased considerably since then and it looks like the swarm is dying out. Five earthquakes were located near Hekla but mostly the weeks activity was located around the country with small swarms just off Reykjanestá, at Kleifarvatn lake, Langjökull glacier and just off the coast in the north. More

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Hydrology

Average flow and temperature last 24 hours

River	Place	Flow	Water temperature
Norðurá	Stekkur
Austari Jökulsá	Skatastaðir
Jökulsá á Fjöllum	Grímsstaðir
Eldvatn	Eystri-Ásar
Ölfusá	Selfoss

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Avalanches

Avalanche conditions

The snow is considered rather stable in most places, the remaining snow and snow has widely become hard and could be difficult to walk on.
Written by a specialist at 02 Dec 11:59 GMT

Avalanche bulletins for selected areas

The avalanche bulletin is at a regional scale. It does not necessarily represent avalanche danger in urban areas.

Region	Sat Dec 03	Sun Dec 04	Mon Dec 05
Southwest corner
Northern Westfjords
Tröllaskagi
Eyjafjörður (experimental)
Eastfjords

News from avalanche specialists (Icelandic)

Dec 01Seyðisfjörður, 1. desember
Undanfarið hafa verið skrifaðir daglegar fréttir um stöðu skriðuvöktunar á Seyðisfirði. Mikið hefur rignt í nóvember, ...

Nov 29Seyðisfjörður
Á meðan úrkomutíð er á Austfjörðum verða daglegar fréttir um aðstæður á Seyðisfirði birtar á þessari síðu þannig að íbúar geti ...

Nov 28Óvissustigi aflétt á Austfjörðum
Ríkislögreglustjóri, í samráði við lögreglustjórann á Austfjörðum og Veðurstofu Íslands, hefur afléttr óvissustigi almannavarna á...

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Minor jökulhlaup in Grímsvötn - 13.10.2022

Updated 13.10.

The glacial flood from Grímsvötn is still ongoing and maximum discharge of about 500 m³/s from Grímsvötn sub-glacial lake is expected to be reached later today or tonight. The ice-shelf on top of the sub-glacial lake has now subsided approximately 12 m since 5th of October. Since yesterday morning signals of floodwater have been detected in Gígjukvísl river by water level measurements and on images from a web camera

Fagradalsfjall eruption unusual in many ways compared to other eruptions - 14.9.2022

The precursors to the eruption at Fagradalsfjall last year were unusual compared to many other eruptions across the world and the composition of the lava changed as the eruption continued. These are among the findings of two papers published in the latest issue of Nature by scientists at the University of Iceland and the Icelandic Meteorological Office along with a large number of colleagues.

„We need to control our footprint on mother Earth“ - 24.8.2022

The president of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, opened the science symposium Cryosphere 2022 in Harpa concert hall this morning. The Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) is organizing the conference focusing on ice and snow in a warming world. About 330 scientists participate in the symposium from 33 countries of 6 continents.

Latest news on the eruption at Reykjanes peninsula - 3.8.2022

Updated 23.8.2022

The eruption in Meradalir, which commenced on the 3rd of August, ceased to issue lava on the 21 of August. Volcanic tremor started to decrease steadily from the 18th and stopped completely during the night of 21st. The activity at the crater ceased at the same time, with no visible extrusion of fresh lava.

Status of unrest in Reykjanes - 2.8.2022

Preliminary deformation modelling results suggest the top depth of the new dike intrusion beneath Fagradalsfjall is very shallow - about 1 km. The magma inflow rate is rapid, almost double that observed during the first dike intrusion in february-march 2021.

Sentinel-1 interferogram attached at Askja - covering period 27 july 2021 to 22 july 2022

Status of unrest in Askja - 27.7.2022

A meeting was held with scientists from the Icelandic Met Office, Institute of Earth Science and the Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management to follow up on the status of unrest in Askja. Since august 2021 an uplift of 35 cm centered west of the Askja lake has been measured.

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Early work and an overview of measurements

Evaluation of the history of climate in Iceland since the settlement has been ongoing for more than two hundred years. Hannes Finnsson, the bishop of Skálholt wrote the first scientific treatise on the subject in 1796 (Finnsson, 1796).

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