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 dry as a [...]
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 on. [...]
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 even coming from my [...]
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 [...]
