The Grindavík Golf Course opens for play on all courses of the golf course today.
Inflation under Svartsengi is continuing and has been at a similar rate in the last few days. A satellite image from Sentinel 1 from June 25 to July 7 shows the same pattern. Model calculations indicate that magma flow is higher now than before the eruption on May 29. This data indicates that another magma outburst and/or eruption is likely in the coming weeks or months.
A wave of warm air is entering Iceland from the southwest on Thursday, coming from North America, as meteorologist Einar Sveinbjörnsson reports on Blika.is, citing a map from the Icelandic Met Office.
Inflation on the Reykjanes peninsula continues to move along the same path as before the weekend, indicating a volcanic eruption in a few weeks according to Einar Hjörleifsson, a natural hazard expert at the Iceland Met Office.
Iceland’s team is at the top of the Icelandic national chess team in the 50 and older category, after a 4-0 victory over Canada in the sixth round yesterday. The tournament will take place 2-11 July in Krakow, Poland.
Árdís Lára Gísladóttir and Ásta Katrín Helgadóttir, from Suðurnes exceeded everyone’s expectations when they became world champions in a new sport called Hyrox, the first competition was held in Germany in 2017. The competition now was held in Nice in southern France, and the sport is getting hugely popular all over the world. In Hyrox, the participants take on eight training tasks and run a kilometre between each task.
Service charges have been introduced at the waterfall Dynjandi near Arnarfjörður in the Westfjords. The charges are paid for each parked car, according to the Environment Agency’s tariff in summer 2024.
The hiker who was searched by the emergency response services in Suðursveit yesterday was found dead.
The hiker that emergency responders have sought today was found at four o’clock yesterday in Suðursveit.
If another eruption occurs this summer in the Sundhnúkagígar crater row system, volcanologist Haraldur Sigurðsson expects a similar eruption to the one that has happened.
A search has been launched for a hiker in the Skálafellsjökull glacier in Vatnajökull. A helicopter of the Icelandic Coast Guard has been activated.
Kerecis CEO Guðmundur Fertram Sigurjónsson is moderately optimistic about winning the prestigious European Inventor Award next week, for his groundbreaking invention of using fish skin for healing wounds and sores.
After a psychiatric examination and evaluation, there is no evidence that Mohamad Kourani is not culpable and not fit for sentencing.
“I will kill you and your family,” he said several times during the hearing in Reykjanes District Court yesterday. “You never know where you have him, he has a great violent mind, so I took these threats very seriously,” said a police officer who testified in court in the case of Mohamad Kourani today.
New registrations of electric passenger cars in Iceland were about 76% fewer in the first half of 2022 than in the same period last year. This can be read from the figures from the Icelandic Transport Authority when looking at only electric cars.
The speed of the inflation is higher than before the eruption on May 29 and is at a similar rate as at the beginning of the year. There is a chance of another magma-run and the likelihood of another volcanic eruption in the coming weeks and months.
The Icelandic Coast Guard received a call about a coastal fishing boat that was caught in a leak just before eleven o’clock last night. One man was on board and he was taken to the hospital.
Just now, the road agency IRCA received a report about a cyclist in the Hvalfjörður tunnel. The police went to meet him in the tunnel followed him out. The tunnel has not been closed and will likely not be.
Recently, the weather gods have given us a glimpse of what a good Icelandic summer offers. Chairman of the Farmers’ Association Trausti Hjálmarsson says all the seasonal work is being done later this summer due to the cold weather in the beginning of June.
Volcanologist Þorvaldur Þórðarson accepts the announcement by the Icelandic Met Office of increased inflation at Sundhnúkagígar crater row with reservations. He doesn’t think that a volcanic eruption will occur in the area any time soon.
This summer, a lot of tourists on cruise ships are expected to arrive in Ísafjörður. This week, thousands of tourists will arrive in Ísafjörður, most of whom were due to arrive on July 4, or about nine thousand. This is what Hilmar Kristjánsson Lyngmo, the harbor manager of Ísafjörður, says to Morgunblaðið.
The Icelandic police say that a “big attack” on Icelanders is currently taking place on Facebook.
A large Viking ship has recently been put up at Hjörleifshöfði in Mýrdalssandur. The ship is operated by the tourism company Viking Park Iceland, which aims to build up historical and cultural tourism at Hjörleifshöfði and Hafursey.
Sævar Markús Óskarsson runs the Icelandic fashion house SÆVAR MARKÚS. He doesn’t just design the clothes in the collection, he also designs the materials. He takes great pride in patterns and designs. Sometimes he works at Apotek Atelier on Laugavegur where he sells his products alongside Halldóra Sif, who runs the Icelandic fashion house Sif Benedicta.
Inflation in Svartsengi is continuing at an increasing rate and a new magma-run or volcanic eruption is likely in the coming weeks.
In Húnaþing vestra, the development of indoor cultivation of rhubarb has begun. There are no examples of this cultivation method used in Iceland.
Minister of Justice Gudrún Hafsteinsdóttir has authorized the National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police to begin work on raising and strengthening defense walls in the vicinity of Grindavík. The total cost of the parks is estimated to be ISK 7 billion.
Lyfjaver Pharmacy is now importing Ozempic in response to a shortage that has occurred alongside a multiple use of the medicine within a short period.
The magma accumulation under Svartsengi will likely increase in the coming days, as the eruption at the Sundhnúkagígar crater row has now ended. Earth scientists do, however, see signs that the magma flow is slowing down, although it is too early to say.
The US astrophysicist and science celebrity Neil deGrasse Tyson visited the geothermal exhibition at the Hellisheiðarvirkjun power plant, and the exhibition’s employees were delighted.
Árvakur, the publisher of Morgunblaðið, experienced an overwhelming cyber attack on most networked systems on Sunday, resulting in a large amount of data being effectively taken hostage by encryption. The news site mbl.is is still up and running, and Morgunblaðið has been published on schedule.
Minister of Justice Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir says that the cyber attack that was carried out on Árvakur’s computer system on Sunday was a major topic at the government’s meeting yesterday. She believes that attacks of this kind are part of war and that democracies be united on the watch and stand firm against certain forces.
Þóra Sólveig Bergsteinsdóttir and her husband, Erwin van der Werve, offer tourists a place to stay in a so-called Yurt or shelter tent from Mongolia in Leifsstaðir in Eyjafjardarsveit. They lived in such a tent in the countryside for many years, but they built one in the Netherlands.
The eruption at the Sundhnúkagígar crater row, which began on May 29, appears to be over. No activity was visible when the civil defenses flew drones over the crater at noon for observation.
The Committee on the Surveillance of the Police considers that officers at the protest scene at Skuggasund on May 31 were careful at the scene and made sure that protesters would not be harmed, unfairly treated, or harmed beyond what was inevitable in the circumstances.
