The Icelandic Met Office has updated tomorrow’s weather warnings. Orange warnings will take effect across large parts of the country around midday.
“The changes to the glaciers over these 20 years are dramatic. They can be attributed to the effects of the so-called ‘Blue Blob,’ which in some years has led to cooler weather here than the global average. In nearly all of these years, the glaciers have retreated, and major events have taken place,” says Dr. Þorvarður Árnason, director of the University of Iceland’s Research Center in Hornafjörður. He has closely monitored the glaciers since moving east in 2006.
A northeasterly wind of 8–15 m/s is forecast today, with light snow showers in the north and east. Winds are expected to be lighter in the southwest, where it will remain mostly dry.
Morgunblaðið reported on Monday that U.S. authorities had banned the sale of routers not manufactured in the United States. Routers are the devices that connect homes and businesses to telecommunications networks and thus to the internet. The ban is justified by reference to recent cyberattacks, with authorities claiming there is no other way to ensure that malicious actors have not inserted vulnerabilities into software or hardware that could later be exploited for further attacks.
The Passion Hymns by Hallgrímur Pétursson will, as is tradition, be performed in full at Hallgrímskirkja tomorrow, Good Friday. The event is overseen by actress and writer Steinunn Jóhannesdóttir, and a total of eight readers will share the recitation of the hymns.
“It’s great to be back at our original venue at the Hilton Reykjavík Nordica—it’s the second year in a row we’re there,” says Guðmundur Pétursson, guitarist and artistic director of the Reykjavík Blues Festival.
Human error led to a theft case at the Freysnes roadside shop in Skaftafell on Sunday not being properly registered in the police system.
Bríet is heading out on an Easter tour, stopping in four locations. After that, the wider world awaits her.
Unprecedented increases in aviation fuel prices have occurred in March. At the beginning of the month, before airstrikes on Iran, a ton of fuel cost around $800 on the global market. It has now risen to approximately $1,600.
A fire broke out in a snowplow near the junction at Þrengslin early this morning, around 4 a.m.
A group of around ten tourists shoplifted extensively from the Freysnes roadside shop today. The owner is warning other tourism operators about the group, which is believed to be heading east. The thieves took groceries, candy, and souvenirs.
An Icelandair flight to Paris, scheduled to depart at 4:00 PM today, has been cancelled. No information has been provided as to why, but it is likely due to a chain reaction from flight disruptions yesterday and earlier today.
The road over Holtavörðuheiði was closed but was opened later this morning. The roads over Hellisheiði and through Þrengsli have been reopened.
Polish Catholics have a tradition at Easter of having carefully prepared food baskets blessed—baskets filled with symbolic meaning. When Aneta Cwiklinska moved to Iceland, she never intended to stay long.
A small bus ran into trouble in Raknadalur, deep in Patreksfjörður, last night when an avalanche fell onto the road and blocked it.
A public bus was stolen at Vífilstaðir in Garðabær yesterday evening.
There will be a southeasterly snowstorm, poor visibility, and difficult driving conditions on Reykjanesbraut, Kjalarnes, and Hellisheiði after 4 PM today.
A tourist had to be rescued at the base of Sólheimajökull today after falling and injuring their hip.
Plans for cooperation between the private medical center Klíníkin and Landspítali National University Hospital on operating inpatient beds will not proceed. The proposed collaboration focused on services for elderly patients with certified functional and health assessments.
Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir today took part in a summit of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) in Helsinki, alongside leaders of the Nordic and Baltic countries and the prime ministers of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. In addition to JEF leaders, the presidents of Ukraine and the prime minister of Canada addressed the meeting.
Low-pressure systems continue to batter the country, with another one expected to approach later tomorrow.
“I started noticing last autumn that I was receiving emails from people saying they had already paid via PayPal. These messages kept increasing—people told me they had paid and sent receipts, and they looked exactly like the ones from my own system.”
Roads leading to and from the capital area were closed at 4:00 AM and will remain closed until the storm has passed, which is expected to be around 1:00 PM today, based on last night’s forecast.
Icelandair has canceled or postponed all of its international flights scheduled for tomorrow morning due to severe weather, according to a statement from the airline.
“The energy source in geothermal systems is magma intrusions, and we are now seeing the geothermal system renew itself, which I find quite remarkable. We are witnessing a renewal of our heat source.”
Severe southeast and easterly weather is expected to sweep across Iceland tomorrow, with particularly harsh conditions forecast for the southwest, including the capital area, in the morning.
Of the 40 electric buses in Strætó’s fleet, 15 are from the Chinese manufacturer Yutong. One Yutong bus is currently in operation in rural public transport, with plans to add five more by the end of the year.
Volcanologist Ármann Höskuldsson says he is intrigued by the developments that began at midday Monday, when a strong earthquake swarm started on the Reykjanes Ridge, about 25 kilometers southwest of Eldey.
An earthquake measuring 4.1 struck about 25 kilometers southwest of Eldey on the Reykjanes Ridge at around 4:30 PM yesterday, following a seismic swarm that began around midday.
Search and rescue teams from Landsbjörg responded to numerous callouts yesterday due to severe weather, though the night itself was relatively calm.
Reykjanesbraut will be under an uncertainty alert from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM today, meaning the road could close on short notice.
“This is simply done out of necessity, unfortunately,” says Magnús Hafliðason, CEO of N1, which has recently introduced parking fees at the gas station parking lot in Ártúnsbrekka.
On March 10, the 1,000th match in the history of the Icelandic recreational football club Dickenbauch Sportverein GmbH was played (Match 1000). Every single game has been recorded in a database, who showed up, the result, whether anyone arrived late, or even scored an own goal.
The four municipalities in the upper Árnessýsla region, which have jointly owned the Laugarás land in Bláskógabyggð, have agreed that Bláskógabyggð will buy the shares of the other three municipalities.
Twelve small avalanches fell above Neskaupstaður overnight and this morning.
