Vikingsson on December 26th, 2007

In the far north the mention of seasons would include the solar season. During summer the sun will linger into the late evening and rise again long before breakfast. The winter however is the realm of darkness. Around the winter solstice it will be dark until near lunchtime and then only daylight [...]

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Vikingsson on September 7th, 2007

Weather happens, or doesn’t, depending on what you like. If you were a tourist or commuter in Iceland this summer you might have loved the dry and warm summer. A mean temperature of 12.5C (55F) doesn’t sound great to southerners but sounds good to me. But if you’re a farmer that same [...]

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Vikingsson on August 30th, 2007

I’m not a big fan of statistics but I hear that the Icelanders are rather fond of them. I think we’re overwhelmed with stats that are more self serving than informative. But I digress…
The other night during my drive home a radio show had one of those conspiracy theory leaning alien visit guys [...]

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Vikingsson on June 14th, 2007

It was about 6:30PM local time in Toronto/EDT when I peeked at the weather conditions. Warmer than New York City today. And it was 11:30PM in Reykjavík Iceland. The weather in Reykjavík was partly cloudy with some light rain.
But the sun was still shining at 11:30PM. That is rather interesting [...]

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