Lowest June Iceland temperatures in 30 years
This has been particularly true during the past four days.
Akureyri, for example, has been experiencing its lowest June temperatures in three decades.
The cold summer weather has been dominant across the country since mid-last-week and meteorologist Einar Sveinbjörnsson wrote on social media this weekend that Iceland is currently trapped between two large warm patches on both sides of the Atlantic.
It is definitely the coldest period after the Summer Solstice that has affected Iceland during the 21st century so far.
The average temperature in Akureyri did not even top six degrees Celsius this weekend.
“It is really just coincidence that mostly controls this. There is cold air here off to the northwest which is normal for this time of year and on into the summer, but it was just persistent, directed here towards us, and went together with the northerly wind coming from the Arctic, and that’s why it’s been so cold,” Einar told RÚV today.
Cold snap over
He says it has been unusually warm on both sides of the Atlantic, but with colder air in between, pushing itself southward, and right over Iceland.
“Over the coming days, the temperature is set to push up a bit and we’ll get closer, as I say, to what we’ve got used to at this time of year. No major heat to speak of, but temperatures maybe 10-15 degrees instead of 5-10.”
Einar says the longer-term forecast remains very unclear, but that the cold snap is at least over.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
““It is really just coincidence that mostly controls this. There is cold air here off to the northwest which is normal for this time of year and on into the summer, but it was just persistent, directed here towards us, and went together with the northerly wind coming from the Arctic, and that’s why it’s been so cold,” Einar told RÚV today.”
And we also can read: “The cold summer weather has been dominant across the country since mid-last-week and meteorologist Einar Sveinbjörnsson wrote on social media this weekend that Iceland is currently trapped between two large warm patches on both sides of the Atlantic.” Hence, these two large warm patches are also the result of “coincidence” So we must admit that weather is an random evident but still is seasonal for obvious reasons.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
I am not sure if meteorologist Einar Sveinbjörnsson can tell us why there is a “northerly wind coming from the Arctic.” For if one goes to (https://follow.mosaic-expedition.org), which is about two attempts attempts to drift a ship frozen in the the northwest Arctic ice in the fall to the North Pole during the following winter season, I challenge any reader to find any evidence that anyone has considered there is the constant centrifugal effect of the rotating earth which counters the northwesterly prevailing, but variable, wind of the winter which should “blow” the ship toward the Pole.
However, during the summer there are few winds which blow toward the Pole from any direction. Hence, the denser, then that of the warm summer air of the continents, cold air of the Arctic is moved by the constant centrifugal effect toward Iceland because there are no continental barriers to go over.
But if one ignores the existence of the constant centrifugal effect, there is nothing to move the colder, more dense, Arctic atmosphere to the south in the summer.
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T. C. Clark
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Record breaking heat over Svalbard, Norway on July 25. There is no place on earth now that has not been both hotter and colder in the past. Therefore, there are no all time temps being set today…..anywhere. Furthermore….in the last few centuries when thermometers have been used, there is no pattern of heat records increasing ….the USA heat records in the 1930’s have not been exceeded to date…..the record measured world high temp in Death Valley is over a century old…the record cold world temp in Antarctica is more recent. So, record high in Svalbard – SO WHAT?
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