A great storm passed over Iceland on Friday night, October 9th, lasting well into Saturday morning.
Wind speeds measuring 20 m/s and higher were recorded at half of the automatic weather stations in the lowland areas and similar speeds were recorded at 80% of automatic weather stations in the highland areas.
In the town of Heimaey in the Westman Islands, wind-speed* of 28 m/s/about-imo/news/nr/1732/
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-13 m/s with sleet or intermittent rain, but in the afternoon lighter winds are forecast in northern and eastern Iceland with brighter skies.
At midnight winds will be calm everywhere, although light snow showers are expected in the south and the west. Temperatures will be close to zero.
New Year‘s Day has also a fine weather forecast, given the season; slow wind, scattered hail and 0°C. Some
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Estimation of avalanche risk (IMO Rep. VÍ-R99001-ÚR01, authors K. Jónasson
S. Þ. Sigurðsson and Th. Arnalds) (pdf 0.5 Mb)
Avalanche hazard zoning in Iceland based on individual risk (Annals of Glaciology, 38, 285−290, 2004, authors Th. Arnalds, K. Jónasson and S. Þ. Sigurðsson) (pdf 0.4 Mb)
A map on a selected front page shows recent observations of avalanches. For user access
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Elvehøy, H., Aðalgeirsdóttir, G., & Jóhannesson, T. (2005). Impact of climate change during 21st century on Svartisen, a coastal ice cap in Northern Norway. Presented at the Annual meeting of the Nordic Branch of the International
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