Vikingsson on April 19th, 2007

All of a sudden in one night the winter broke. Last frost. Very late this year but the timing was perfect.
Today is the first day of Harpa, the summer month in the old Icelandic calendar, which is also officially the first day of summer. Nice article at IcelandReview magazine.
And tonight was a nice [...]

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Vikingsson on March 9th, 2007

» sub glacial volcano.

» sub glacial volcano.

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Vikingsson on February 13th, 2007

Here comes the big dump. A very large storm is heading our way from the west. We’re still a few hours away from being hit but the lake effect snow has already started. The -17C/+1F temp this morning is being sucked into the low pressure storm causing the lake effect snow we’re [...]

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Vikingsson on February 8th, 2007

It is a bright sunny day. Cold but sunny. And it is snowing. Very interesting phenomenon, a line of snow squalls off the northern lakes appear like a fluffy dog’s tail extending south. It is slowly wagging back and forth dumping heavy snow in a narrow path.
The tail just [...]

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