Tag Archives: weather
Survive a storm in Iceland. Posted by hulda on Nov 4, 2012
Hello dear readers, I hope that everyone around the areas that Sandy hit are safe! Over here we had some stormy weather over the weekend as well, although it really couldn’t compare to Sandy. Storms are typical autumn weather for Iceland and with winds over 25m/s they can, however, still cause a lot of damage…
S.O.S. – save our sheep! Posted by hulda on Sep 14, 2012
Up north the rescue units have been hard at work for the whole week. The storm may be over but it brought along a lot of snow for the north part of the country and it could not have come at a worse time. Icelandic sheep are let out in the spring after which they…
The waterfall that flowed into the sky. Posted by hulda on Sep 11, 2012
Búast má við stormi (= a storm is expected) is a sentence that makes me immediately a little bit worried whenever I see it at the Icelandic Met Office‘s webpages. It tends to mean it’s soon going to be impossible to walk outdoors and if going out cannot be avoided it’ll be a very uncomfortable…