The Coldest Icelandic Winter in Decades - Energy and Tourist Troubles
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- This is how the Icelandic winter has been treating us so far with extreme cold which is very unusual in South Iceland especially. However, human mistakes were perhaps more dangerous than the weather in some cases so this is also a briefing about what we can learn from this coldest winter in decades.
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With Greetings from Iceland
Gylfi
The sidewalks in downtown Reykjavík during the Christmas season was outright unacceptable. Many streets, including Laugavegur was sheets of ice. I cannot tell you how many people I saw slip and fall. Especially elderly people. I don't think I had ever seen a city neglect roads so bad as I saw in December.
Yes this is unacceptable service and the worst part is that we could see this coming miles away
More appropriate footwear rather than raise taxes to have enough spare capacity to deal with once in decades events ? We will never be able to keep everyone happy in the ongoing climate catastrophe as we voted for no action decades ago when it might have made a difference . To late now as the methane time bomb has been lit..look at latest atmospheric methane levels at a time human emissions levelled or fell ..omg moment .
It's a bit weird, because I was in Reykjavik in winter a few times when there was a lot of snow, but some of the streets are actually heated so the snow melts away. I've never seen Laugavegur or other central parts like that on any snowy day. But Reykjavik had rather extreme conditions lately. Not sure what went wrong.
@@JustIcelandic we stayed in Reykjavik in Christmas 2015/NY 2016 and the sidewalks were very icy, very hard to navigate, especially on the hills. A little surprised that there was no attempt to clear them at all and we were there for 10 days. I would think all that volcanic ash could be put to use to make the walkways safer
@@MyKharli it was the same icy conditions when we were there in Dec 2015/Jan 2016, almost impossible to keep your footing, especially on the hills. Maybe they could spend less on the city workers walking around with gas torches burning the weeds on the sidewalks during the Summer (as we saw in June 2013) and put it towards ice removal 😏
Visited Iceland for the first time at Christmas, i suppose the bad weather is inconvenient for people going about their business, but I loved it. Never seen weather like it before. I'm not one for tourist hotspots, one evening I walked around some residential areas near central Reykjavik after heavy snowfall, honestly the most relaxing evening of my life. The nicest moments always happen off the well-trodden paths.
I totally agree, and understand the feeling, just going your own self made path after the snow, and greetings from the north :)
I think I speak for all your followers, when I say that you don't *need* excuses for showing the fantastic winter footage. Greeting from Göteborg, where we miss the real winters.
Thanks man and greetings to Göteborg :)
Served at Naval Air Station Keflavik from 1979-80 and it was amazing that the entire NATO base was heated by the commercial heating district hot water loop. It was amazing how toasty it kept the buildings!
PS - Water coming out of the facet was wonderful, can’t exactly explain the taste or source but wow!
PS2 - used Ice Cleats Snow Crampon for walking on snow and ice. The melt during the day / freeze at night cycle plus winds present around airport made walking difficult.
You have clearly tried Iceland well :) and thanks a lot for sharing and greetings from the north :)
Lovely to see your beautiful country in a blanket of snow. Sorry to hear of all the tribulations. Thank you for the very enjoyable update!
Thank you very much!
Invigoratingly beautiful videos! Thanks for sharing them and the general news about recent weather conditions.
Glad you like them it and greetings from Iceland :)
Love your country.
You have one of the best narrator voices out there. Thing that left me thinking was: why are those hot water pipes made so that they "regularly" make a turn instead of going straight?
The hot water makes them expand and this has somehow to do with that or to prevent them to crack, and thanks for visiting and remarks about my voiceovers :)
If they were dead straight there'd be no capacity for expansion and contraction.
The bends in the pipes are called expansion bends . Due to expanding and contracting you cannot make a straight pipeline . Doing this would result in breaking/tearing the pipeline .
Rough estimate for expansion in iron pipes is around 1-2 mm per metre of pipe .
Beatiful narration , Gylfi . Takkar fyrir .🇳🇴
Currently -18 C here in the inner parts of eastern Norway, clear skies and white snow. Luckily the weather forecast predicts that this is the last week of proper winter weather! My first winter here in 2009/2010 it was - 30/-35 for weeks and I really wondered what the heck I had done😆
Wow, we rarely get -20, but it occurred however this winter, and it's not over, cant imagine how 30c would treat us :) and greetings to Norway :)
The winter of 2010 and also 2011 in the UK was also quite cold with 1.5 Meters of snow being recorded in Sheffield. In January 8th 2010, Scotland recorded a temperature of -22.3° C.
Wonderful video Gylfi, thank you! You do not disappoint. You give us quality video clips of snow clearing, the weather in Akureyri and the Reykanes peninsula. Bad politicians? I'll swap those city leaders of yours for ours for 6 months, then we'll see who has the least competent group. (Fair warning, some of ours could not find their arses with both hands and a map and an hour of privacy in their own houses.)
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On the bright side, displacing both groups of politicians means each group would be out of their element. I imagine each group would be less successful at crooked/scandalous stuff since each group would be strangers in a strange land.
I especially want to thank you for that clip at 7:57 -- the wide shot of the town lit up like a Christmas tree, snowy mountain in the background, and those _beautiful_ northern lights almost flowing like a river at the speed you're using to run that clip. Wow.
Thanks a lot, it's from the trip that ruined the shutter in my camera late last winter, came back with 1000 RAW files or 2 time lapses, however, this was not the final product, have a new computer now and I'm re-processing nearly all time lapses to make the completely noice free and suitable for stock agencies, so it's way more to some :) and thanks for dropping by :)
"Iceland will always be Iceland".. beautiful shots !
Love of Iceland will always be in Gylfi..
good luck with the responsiveness of politicians, I hope they get shaken up appropriately.. most everywhere else, they are getting denser and more cold than any snow event.
Thanks a lot and greetings from the north :)
Thank you very much for putting this together. Visited Iceland 2022 April for 5 days and it was by far the best holiday I've ever had. I'm interested in all things Iceland - even the negative things. Subscribed, and cheers from La La Land, California.
Thanks for subbing and welcome to the channel :)
Glad to hear from you!
Winter is winter , without snow and cold is not winter and we miss it no matter how difficult is for us and for our loving animals.
Thank you and greetings from the north :)
Lovely footage again. I wish you lots of sunshine the coming days and hopefully no more winter troubles.
I hope so too :) and greetings from the north :)
Wow..lots of unexpected situations in Iceland as of late. Saludos desde Panamá🇵🇦
(It's very interesting to see Akureyri covered with snow...looks so different.)
Thanks, Akureyri is fantastic with fresh snow all over, but as we get into early spring, the old dirty snow becomes extremely dull :) but it's been a beautiful winter so far :) and greetings from the north :)
Thank you for the update. Hope you are well.
All well and greetings to to from Iceland :)
Did i hear this right. You have free hot water squirting out of the ground, and the government sold your bucket to put it in?
Yes :)
Still, despite the issues you outlined, Iceland is still our favorite country, and having grown up in heavy Winters in New England as a kid with similar issues, all I can relate to you is that these problems shall pass for you as well. You are fortunate to live in such a beautiful country, and with a great society. We will be back to visit and tour your beautiful country again, as we have done twice before. Now as for that cracked windshield... That stinks! I hate when that happens!!!
Thanks, i still havent got it replaced, it's the first time this happens to me, but can be traced to a little damage from a stone on one of those miserable gravel roads last summer :) and always welcome to Iceland :)
We have also had a colder winter in my part of Scotland. We have a snow plow and gritters and although the roads were clear the pavements were not and became treacherous. Still love it though :)
Greetings to Scotland :)
Best regards from the winter in Ontario, Canada, Our weather has been incredibly varied, Your posts are an escape to another northern world, Great information and astounding drone videos.
Wonderful! Good luck figting the snow :)
Thank you for your updates.
My pleasure!
I look forward to your updates and beautiful images each week. I'm assuming this is northern lights over Rekyavik, once again beautiful and well captured.
It was actually Akureyri :) shot early this winter
@@JustIcelandic stunning location,
Iceland is very fortunate to be situated near the Gulf Stream. 😉
Very😉
Warm wishes from California where it's currently a balmy 8° at 4200" in elevation. And people think, "Ahhh, palm trees and beaches" whenever they hear the name !:-)
Another gorgeous video 🙏
Thanks for sharing and stopping by :)
I’m sure that 8 degrees fahrenheit. US.
We visited Iceland in Dec. and had great weather - COLD but NO snow, rain or wind . We left on Dec. 10 and the next day they had a major snowstorm. We loved Iceland - AMAZING PLACE AND PEOPLE ! Would love to go back in summer but loved seeing the NorthernLights .
Thanks for sharing! Great you got the light, hoe it was a good show and greetings from the north :)
It’s not just Iceland the whole world has gone crazy with the weather, i live in Australia and half is flooding and in the west where i live it’s hotter than it’s ever been yuck, i hate the heat. Take care and thank you for sharing 👍🙏❤️
👍 Thanks you and greetings to Australia :)
LOL. Sometimes, I think the weather people need to just look out the window sometimes. Stay warm & keep sharing these wonderful videos.
Thank you :)
I must say I love your phrase "we the country people"...to differentiate from the city folk, I guess 🙂Weather has been more than just unpredictable almost everywhere on planet Earth. Politicians and administrations seem to be the same everywhere...'tis the nature of the beast. As of Jan 20th...only 60 days until the first day of Spring...so take heart...you'll soon have more than 3 minutes of sunlight on your face. Thanks for the snowy video...even with the problems, the season is beautiful. As always...travel safely.🤗
"The Coldest Icelandic Winter in Decades" Well, you know that global warming causes cold weather... Yup.
Thanks a ton, as always :) and greetings from the north :)
Take you for your wonderful video’s. I am so glad that you also provide some news about what’s going on in Iceland. Best wishes for 2023 and I look forward to more updates. Thank you again
Thank you so much!
Our winter in Portland, Oregon has been colder than usual but also drier. Drier isn't good for us because we rely on the mountain snow pack to supply us with water during our dry summer months. So far, we've had only one ice storm--unlike much of the rest of the US. Because we mostly get rain, we also have few snow plows. Reykjavik probably has more than we do!
Thank for sharing and greetings from the north :)
I'm currently planning trip #3 back over--I want nothing more than my mother to experience this most amazing place!--and had told my husband I'd have no concern with traveling in the winter...until this winter! 😂
Greatly appreciate your videos and the all the information you share for those of us an ocean away!
Wonderful! Always welcome to Iceland, I don't recommend the spring, the yellow season as I call it, all other season have something spectacular for us :)
@@JustIcelandic why do you not recommend Spring? It's my favourite season, but probably from other reasons as I live in a different climate (Poland btw :) but I know really snowy and incredibly cold winters )
Outstanding & comprehensive update, wonderful footage/pictures, including AB 😮👌🌟
Thank you kindly
Thanks for sharing Gylfi. It's always nice to see how my second home country is doing and what an awesome timelapse of the Aurora ! I guess Iceland is one of the cleanest energy country there is. You will probably have more and more electric cars and heatpumps in places where there's no geothermal energy so the energy grid needs to be upgraded for that, I hope the energy companies coop with that. Greetings from the Netherlands, Bart
Thank you! 😃 we are actually battling against the windmills now, and it's gonna be something...uffff and greetings to the Netherlands :)
A guy down the pub told me, that they couldn't use the snow moving equipment because the roads were slippery. Health and safety.
Neeee, they all have chains :) and I have a long snow plowing video in the making, coming very soon :) and you will see there how it's done properly :)
Helf an’ safety gone mad, innit!
that was 2 extreme winters in 2 years. Makes me think whats going to happen next year. Last year they cleaned our street last in reykjavik (while cleaning roads leading up to ours multiple times earlier before touching ours). This year we also had to wait weeks for our street to be cleaned. Might get a snow blower for next year to be self prepared
Sound like a good idea to di your self :) the city is doing a poor job with this I must say, and greetings from Akureyri :)
My two favorite Icelandic UA-camrs talking to each other, neat!
@@JustIcelandic as it is with most things... the cheapest contractor gets the job - even if things turn out to be more expensive in the long run.
When you were talking about incompetent government and road authorities, for a minute I thought you were talking about the UK.
I will say though, our weather forecasts are as good as you'll get anywhere. But, forecast not guarantee!
Best wishes from 🇬🇧
Thank you 😊
We just came back from our holiday in iceland. We had an incredible time and enjoyed the cold 🥶 .
We are back in Western Australia in the scorching heat again now.
Cool :) Thanks for sharing and greetings from the north :)
Crazy situations there. Thank you and be safe.
Welcome :)
Thank you for your video!
You are welcome!
I was surprised when I saw the hot water pipelines.
Your engineers use 90 degree bends !
Have you any idea how much that slows the flow ?
Replace them with 90 degree curves, it's so much more efficient.
I'm not an engineers so I cant say, but it's like this all over the country!
@@JustIcelandic Thank you for your reply.
I'm sure you know some engineers, though this really needs a fluid engineer such as work in the oil industry.
There are no right angle bends in pipes at refinery plants.
I know about it from aquaculture, efficiency drops enormously and even short curve connectors cause more drop than longer more gentle bend connectors.
I hope you can do your country a favour by bringing up this subject for debate.
Love learning so much about Iceland from your videos. We have similar issues here in New Zealand with the weather forecasters.
We have in the last couple of days, that's for sure! Was in Iceland in December and I can testify that the weather made the trip quite an adventure. Driving Conditions in downtown Reykjavik were often worse than out in the countryside...
I think they trust too much in computer models :)
@@JustIcelandic almost certainly. Greetings from a flooded Auckland btw!
Thanks for your channel - we had the most amazing time in Iceland last October and we're planning another longer trip next year. Cheers!
Sounds great! and welcome back to Iceland :)
Great video Gylfi ❤
Thanks a lot :)
😆never a dull moment in Iceland 😆
You got that right 😆
Stay warm my friend!
Thanks, you too!
Gylfi In Reykjanes we normally get 2-3 weeks of snow each winter max 10-15cm. Meanwhile Akureyri is covered in snow more or less from late November to late March, with average of 40-60cm snow accumulation. It's understandable we don't have the same snow equipment as you northerners. It would be a massive waste of money. Also Reykjanesbraut was closed for a damn good reason, it doesn't matter if it's the best highway in Iceland, every 20 minutes human height snowdrifts formed and as you got closer to Keflavík the snowdrifts got higher and higher.
Iv'e lived in Njarðvík and Grindavík so I know a bit about how things are on the airport road, I know they had a reason to close it this time, however, 2 days was totally unacceptable, there are of course terrible drivers among us, often blocking more then any snowdrift, but we have plenty of SAR teams to help out and make things work. We lost too much goodwill from this incident, and didn't have to. As for Reykjavík, my home for 25 yrs, it should be as well equipped as the 5 other municipalities in the metropolitan area! but they aren't, and it's for Reykjavík to explain why, and also why their contractors didn't show up when they needed, after all it's money for them so there is a reason, was the city trying to BS it self out of this situation by blaming them? As for Akureyri, they just do what needs to be done when it snows, it's Iceland, and I wish Reykjavik the same. Greetings from Akureyri, Gylfi
Currently in a temperate zone...
snow removal cannot be discussed without a few unacceptable words!...
I understand :)
Beautiful Iceland !!!
We agree!
I live in breiðholt downtown Reykjavik. This winter has been interesting. The snow melts, and it comes back two days later knee deep. I am six foot inches tall. -_-
it's been a strange winter in Reykjavik for sure :)
Now I am Icelandic like you and agree on a lot of things you mention in this video, but!. The closure of the "highway" Reykjanesbraut for so long was not mainly because of lack of equipment or manpower but a lot of tourists that never have even seen snow and therefor never driven in snow. And some of them even never driven a car before. They have license because they completed the test in a computer! Lack of visability is a big factor and when you are maybe a bit afraid of circumstances you just stop and that is the main factor. Stopped vehicles all over the road and you know what happens then. Not possible to plow because of the cars all over and thank god for the new laws allowing the road administration to move those cars right away if they want to. Hopeless to have to wait for some car rentals just pick up their cars.
Thanks for sharing Sverrir, tourist from, yes we know from where :) are not helping at all :) and it's right that we have faulty regulations when it comes to removing them, lets hope this was a lesson to learn from
Thank you. Very interesting, and what a muddle of human preconceptions and poor judgments!
Welcome :)
I’m preparing for my second trip to Switzerland in the summer but maybe in November in the aurora season I will explore Iceland if not next year❄️
Always welcome to Iceland :)
@@JustIcelandic Thank you
Thanks for the vid and incompetent behaviour. We in Australia, at least NSW, have similar bureaucratic bungling, I’m starting to think it’s international to Jack up the bills. They recently sold a coal fired power station and hundreds of acres of land for….$1,000,000 !!!!! It would cost to much to pull it down. The purchaser after the dust settled announced he is not closing it but thinks he should get 15 more years out of it. Great scenery if I was 10 years younger I’d come and visit
Thanks for sharing and greetings from the far north :)
What a mess!
By the way, I love your drone videos of the plows working. Almost as much as the sheep and horse videos.
Still waiting for some new ones😉maybe some Ravens again?!
Well, you are lucky, I'm editing a raven video since today and working on a 60 min long snow plowing video, I think I got all the shots I need but I'm trying to finish it this weekend :)
@@JustIcelandic OH MY GOSH!!! Bless you Gylfi! It's like a dream come true! Looking forward to them both
I will keep a lookout for the ravens!
The Keflavik to Reykjavik road closure debacle caused my hubbyvto be stuck in UK another day.
And now it seems as if it was unnecessary.
Very disappointing.
Yes this road issue is not over around here, way to serious to leave...
Thanks for the video. Will be visiting Iceland in June of this year. Any must see advice?
Westman Islands, Þríhnjúkagígur lava cave, the secondary roads on the Reykjanes Peninsula, if you do a long trip, I would recommend Kjalvegur highland road, Akureyri, Húsvík, Mývatn but wow, it's just so much I can recommend, feel free to mail me and ask :)
I worked on farms in iceland and visited keflavik American base without a problem 1973.akureyri and neskaupstadur(kaup means buy stadur,place).
Asta sigurdardottir,now she was a real lady.. nice video. I m from newfoundland just over the way but when I was there in iceland the cod war was thing which in the end saved their fishing industry.bravo.clapoing the banking criminals in jail must have saved their financial situation 🤔
Thank you for sharing and greetings from Iceland :) and I will do the bankers story later, it's a still ongoing mess
Thank you for the video, the Pearl is beautiful, the Blue Lagoon is beautiful, was there 20 years ago all the sidewalks we're clear then. This reminds me of a family joke they used to say that Grandpa who worked at the Icehouse used to answer the phone "Kristmann in the ice house" used to make my mother-in-law Dora laugh. God bless you and your family amen and aloha from another volcanic island
Aloha and greetings from Iceland and thanks for sharing :)
Here in the south of the Netherlands the first half of January was too warm but now we have normal winter weather. We had 7cm of snow yesterday. -4°C last night and 0,5° during the day. Temperatures will rise during the week to about 5°.
The winter here was very mild until December when this hit us, but overall it's getting colder
Thank you for this upload !
I have a suggestion for the drone issue ... if you wrap the battery up in a little bit of Mylar [space blanket] you should be able to fly .... just don't forget to unwrap it when the weather warms up.
There are videos on UA-cam where drone operators have done this at -15c ...
I'm actually not worried about the batteries, they are at room temperature at takeoff and don't cool that much during max 15-20 min flight so thats not stopping me, and they don't suffer noticeable loss if I keep them warm before takeoff, I'm more worried about the motors and moisture in the air, my drone is made for 0c max, but I do however takeoff every now when it's colder, but no playing around though :) The drone I'm aiming at handles -20c and thats what I need, often fantastic photo subjects in such cold, and harder to get and thats for me :) but thanks for the tip though and greetings from the north :)
Thanks to take all the cold weather. I had one week of below zero and one day with a centimeter of snow two weeks before christmas. On new year i was thinking about mowing my lawn. January is so far 6 C above average for January. This is north west germany. Other parts of germany got some snow the last two days, not me.
Thanks for sharing and greetings to Germany :)
Hot water shortage?? Sounds like it's time to wrap up in many blankets with your favorite person!
Kidding aside, I would think people in charge would know how to better supply hot water and geothermal energy in a country with so much geothermal activity!
Yes this is unacceptable and we had the same problem last year in Reykjavik
Beautiful images. I can under stand Vogar’s concern with the above ground power lines, but I think the under ground power service could be cut with earthquakes. Seems like a coin toss and hope for the best. Stay warm !
Thats right, however earthquake damage is easy to fix, rather than to watch those pylons melt down as it's on a risky locations, and i would like to see if it could work to place it offshore, but it's not been discussed.
I visited your North country after spending 3 days at the eruption. No crowds and inexpensive lodging for the beautiful fjords country and north coastal areas. Seemed everyone stayed down south. I stayed on a chartered super yacht in Reykjavik. One of my son's patients is a millionaire and said we could stay on his yacht if we flew there so we did. I missed the eruption in 2021, but not 2022.
We have this problem that most of the tourists stay south while other parts of the country suffer and I'm glad you liked it in the countryside :)
@@JustIcelandic Just as beautiful up North and the Western Fjords are well worth the drive.
Wonderfull as always. Thank you. May I sergest you go to the UK met office sight. It has a full Iceland forecast and they have there own super computer too.
Icelanders use the Norwegian forecast a lot nowadays but I have been thinking about to compare weather forecasts some day, it could be very interesting :) so it's still on my todo list :)
@@JustIcelandic Yes that would be very interesting. As you probably know Brits have a thing about the weather.
Wow. Could listen you to talk all day! Fantastic voice! We are visiting end of march and camping in a van. Unsure if wise now to book a 4X4 to do the loop around north. What do you think?
The first time I went to Iceland was in February a number of years ago and it was colder than usual plus Reykjavik had a massive snow storm the day before I arrived. The sidewalks were a mess but nothing I wasn't used to back home. A local man asked me what made me go to such a cold and snowy destination in the winter. When I told them I was from Canada and that their -13c was quite balmy compared to the -25c weather I had left he told me a story about how he had to spend a week in Ottawa in January for work where it was -45 for the week. He looked at me so solemnly and told me that we must be very mentally strong to endure such cold weather. I said anything colder than -20 just feels the same to us. I think Iceland should contract Canadian consultants for winter weather emergency measures.
At the beginning of the week we were forecasted to have a mild day on Friday - but today it froze all day here in Ayrshire , SW Scotland. ! It's now supposed to thaw in the early morning of Saturday 21st , and by Sunday it's to be 9 degrees. Hope so , as I would like the spring bulbs to get a move on.
Say hi to Katy Allan for me.
We finally got good thaw this afternoon, it's very slippery now and windy as well so my car was blown from the carpark into the street, very Icelandic indeed :)
A lot of flat areas for cross country skiing
Yes you most likely meant Eyjafjörður, where the video started, beautiful there and it's possible to move up to the highlands from there as well :)
well, tbh i would have been surprised if island is different to all other countries in that regard ;) mistakes, to less foresight, economic decisions, bureaucracy, everywhere the same ;) kind regards from austria, where its not cold or snowy enough. guess we could lend some snow plows and brine/salt spreader trucks ;) regarding icy roads, a lot of ppl here have removable snowspikes for their shoes, always a good thing to have if you life or visit somehwere where snowy and icy conditions are common :)
Thanks for sharing and greetings from Iceland 🙂
The English spoken in Iceland sounds exactly the same as the English spoken in Greece.
Greece, the first land I visited :)
Sounds like you need a train between the airport and the capital.
It's been discussed here but I'm not sure if it's going to be done, but it's however a good video topic some day :)
with things affecting the gulf stream from the climate change it's only gonna get worse, although i have a silly hypothesis that since there was 5% extra moisture left this winter in the atmosphere (actually between two sets of atmospheres) after the Tonga vulcano blew 12% extra moisture into the sky at the time of its erruption and i wonder if that has anything to do with all the rain and snow hitting US CA Greenland and yinz guys. ya just never know. it seems to have stopped now. hope it helps the drought in our west.
I was thinking the same thing. Lots of rain and flooding in Australia this summer. Unusually warm winter weather here in Ontario Canada.
Thanks for sharing and greetings from the north :)
Interesting and informative.
Thanks
Sounds like you guys have bureaucracy problems.
Common in many places.
Bless u all there.
Yes we do :) and greetings from Iceland :)
Ugh, some people see something like this and use it as evidence that the overall global avg temp isn't increasing. I try to explain to them that events like this are kinda like "leaving the fridge door open". The destabilization of the Jetstream will cause it to meander much farther north and south, so that it circulates very cold air to regions not used to it. Of course, Iceland is used to it, but you and I (Iceland and Canada) are the front-line nations who get absolutely chilled when the jet leaves the fridge open. Eventually, the fridge gets warm, and and isn't a fridge anymore.
Thanks for sharing and greetings to Canada :)
Quite! In addition, meltwater from the Greenland Ice Sheet floats on top of the denser, saltier Gulf Stream water and freezes over more readily. So warmer summers causing increased melting could theoretically cause a temporary increase in sea ice cover and regional cooling of the northern North Atlantic as global warming proceeds.
Next to come => Iceland without Volcanoes ! ! ! 😅 Paul hit ticks
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Welcome back :)
I hope that you get a good quick end to the Winter, I think you're taking the harsh winter and sparring Europe - not much of a winter in the UK. I have cycled daily all but one week. Is Iceland experiencing a downturn in tourists, finances getting ever tighter recently, I wonder how this will impact this coming year.
I'm actually quite optimistic when it comes to tourism, we don't need that big part of that huge cake to do well :)
Great vid! Franz Kafka would have been impressed.
Hope so!
1/you cant blame municipality if theres no often snow to be underequiped, but it should change now sicne its a trend, buy extra 20 snow tractor isnt big...may be 1m €, that should fix reykavik snow problem, as well than highway
2/ the city is right, burry cable in accessible tunnel is good idea, but instead waiting for politican to change law for cheap pylon, they should indeed change the law and make the burry a standard for most populated aera. theres 4 option, A/on the ground +burry it with rock/ash, B/dig a trench and burry it under, C/tunneler engine, but its rather for cross mountain its expensive and slow 500m/1km/month, D/ set the wire-tunnel along the coast, its cheaper to use a ship, but you couldnt fit hotwater pressured inside, it will cool too quick :p
3/ main problem is the cost, iceland is very low in population, so the tax cannot cover all, but tourism can,
so can you afford it? you need to search for the cost :D
4/ icy sidewalk? buy stuff: shoes to canadian 38million of people used to walk on ice in winter^^ they have product perfect for the task, there"s middle place between hiking spike and Tong :) you can also use hiking stick..3 leg is better than 2 on ice.
Good one, we should hire you :) Thanks for sharing and greetings from Iceland :)
I thought the street with the 6 machines in Akureyri was familiar, turns out it was my old street that i lived on a few years back😂 and my house was the 1 house before the first house on the left that is shown😂, but the funny thing is that when i lived there, the street was barely plowed and so cars often got stuck so im am glad that they changed that
Yes Austurbyggð it was :) and the full video from there around, 60 minutes or even longer will be online soon, however, the town is doing a fine job now, most of the time :) but as always, all want to be first when we get some real snow :)
Wait! What?! The last word of the video was not Ieeecland! :: wanders off muttering to himself ::
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Visited Iceland in December. Nothing is perfect, but you are a bit too negative. Your country, compared to the rest of the world, is way ahead. Liked both the video and your channel, but the most impressive part is that you found so many negative things about handling the winter:) All jokes aside, great video.
Perhaps Iceland shares the same weather as Scotland, because our Met office could not tell us what the colour of grass will be in Spring!
How about you send us your weather man and you can have ours. Perhaps it just their location thats wrong
@@JustIcelandic Howling hurricane here right now and a cold that gets into your very soul.
We had only view for the next yellow pole in the south in march. What did the icelanders say ? Its not bad, just drive on. Its only bad for tourists if you cannot see any yellow pole. Icelanders would continue to drive even then. When we arrived in Keflavik, on the highway, there was a car crash with some 5 cars?, and one lost its rear axle. Wife still says it was one of best holidays ever….I agree it was !
Any yellow pole is a luxury Carsten :) But we tend to complain when we cant see the front part of the hood :)
considering the ""Winter"" here in Romania I must say, that by the last 20 yeras, which I know very well, it the most HOT Winter ever in history...
by Christmas we have all tim more than +5 gr... and in the last 20 days now in January we have between + 10 and + 22,5 gr C ...
normally we have between -2 and -10 gr, C, because we have the Carpatian Mountains with more 2.500 m as like an big S going through the Country...
it happened very often that we got 40 - 50 cm snow fall in one night and thr streets was blocked in half of country...
this brutal Spring in Winter is a catastrophe for nature and agriculture...
and too less rain fall..!!!!
in the last 10 years the clima changed here dramatically..!!
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and when in the next summer will be again 3 - 4 months with NO RAIN and Temp between 30 -42 gr over all the weeks, the landscape and agricuktutre will become the desert in Europe...
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for me this new weather is Man Made, because of the endless CHEMTRAILS we see each day behind all the thousands of airplanes which fly over EAST Europe between Europe and Arabia and South East Asia and Asia...
IN FORMER YEARS, IN 60' - 90' ies was never long chemtraiuls behind the planes, the condensate strip behind the planes was absolute short...!!!
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I have and a lot of thousand other interested Sience Engineers have a clear meaning about...
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I wish a good time to Iceland...
I miss very much the Cross Country Loipe Spures to go with my Skies like in Finland or other countries with actual snow....
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Thank you for this information and best of luck from Iceland 😊
I am just heading to your beautiful country, ,thought I would find real winter here. Forecast for next week: rain, wind, warm :) oh well...
Welcome to Iceland, don't mind the weather forecast, the Met office doesn't even show the currant weather right :) however, it's a great Northern Light forecast next week, and if you want real winter, just come up north, west or east, the winter is still on: www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/auroral-activity/aurora-forecast.html
@@JustIcelandic sounds great, Gylfi! hopefully I'll manage to see the green lady :) I'm staying 2 weeks, so there are some chances.
Kinda unexpected to see you roast vedur, we (non icelandic) photographers hold it in truly high regards, over the past years anyway. Still did our own Cloud Coverage forecast (I recommend you using kachelmannwetter - the site works in english too and has an insane amount of high-res weather models that also predict cloud coverage) or just plainly check the satellite. I do however feel that they (vedur) always do a good job at taking the geography into account and how things like mountains impact the cloud coverage etc. - But apparently recently not so much lol. Stay warm up there!
Yes I'm usually very kind to vedur.is but they failed also today to show the actual real time weather and it bothers me just so much, how can they predicts anything when they dont know what's actually going on?, just doing some out of touch models :) This is not acceptable and I will check this site out since I need to dive into this and compare the different weather agencies, at least for my own mental health :) like when chancing northern lights :) and thanks for stopping by :)
@@JustIcelandic Haha yeah I get you, it just seems very lazy, but nowadays everyone relies on weather models too much and sometimes forgets to observe, what is actually happening haha
We need little cold in Serbia🥹🥹😖😖
Yes iv'e been looking into that recently, sad to see how things are, just so far away from our own world here up north but I wish you best of luck and peace from Iceland
Im surprised iceland isnt snowy like that all the time ! guess my ignorance of the weather there shows haha !
Yes it's not as many think, personally I want the snow since the rain in Reykjavik is just dull :)
Climate change?
Yes. Climate changes to colder climate as well.
If some of you actually listened when you were in your science class, you would know this right now.
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The AMOC is slowing down?
Not to my knowledge....but I might try to fins such info since I have a related project in the making that requires such info, so more later about the one :)
Iceland has almost 100% renewable energy, but also some credit market contracts with the EU. In their eyes Iceland produces nuclear energy as well because of that. And guess what? We the residents have to pay for this 'dirty' energy, raising our bills up to 15%! Its ridicilous.... we dont benefit our renewable energy at all.
Yes wow, I cant understand this credit market nonsense, I should perhaps find someone to explain this in a video :)
End of winter? It's just about half way, don;t you get cold periods in February or early March in Iceland?
The winter is far from over yes :) but this cold chapter is over now, raining now, and we hope the worst is over :)
due to problems due to the weather, people should get to know the weather in these areas better because the Icelandic weather is very unpredictable and even weather forecasts can get into trouble because of that it is often the case that storms or bad weather do not knock and let you know that it is coming, most often when there is a bad forecast, you can count on the fact that the weather often comes before weather forecasts, unfortunately
You are absolutely right and thanks for sharing
What are the inexplicable squared off detours in the pipelines at the beginning of the video? Are they anticipating a future structure in those spots?
To minimize damage from expansion and contraction with the hot water. From what I understand, it works extremely well.
@@Rennrogue Oh! I would never have thought of that...and it makes total sense. Thank you!
Rennrogue got it right :)
@@WhiteTiger333 that's how I felt when I learned it.😊
Trade you politicians! My local and statewide politicians are OK, but our state assembly rivals House of Representatives for common sense. A trade seems fair. Certainly the hotheads here could use a dose of reality while yours might get a dose of efficiency. In the state of Georgia our statewide government got both in 2014 when we had a major snow storm (for the Deep South), traffic came to a halt for 5 days because of lack of equipment, and the state became mocked. We have a road authority that gets ahead of the weather now.
Reykjavík got its own fair share of mockery this time, but I worry it wasn't enough, most municipalities know their own people and do things right but the capital is sadly in a category of its own.
hi ..im visiting on the 23 of January ..whats the weather there now
Cold winter so far, but won't get worse I hope :) it's actually getting a bit better, however, there wether here, is something you don't count on :) but welcome to Iceland :)
@@JustIcelandic Thankyou for replying so quick
Three minutes of sun in your face? - Careful, much more and you might get sun stroke ;-)
There are towns in Iceland that won't see the sun for the next 1-2 months so it's a luxury where I'm now :)
Running underground conductors isn’t a good idea tbh.
Pends on location, in this case I think it's a good idea!
@Just Icelandic I do this work for a living depending on the voltage it may not be viable electrically to do this based on distance and the conductors/cable required.
Good day to you Sir from the Isle of Man, where we have been enduring appalling temperatures down to zero, abominable lol!
I disagree with the description ' clean energy' in Iceland, the vast amounts of gases the country pumps out from your heat sources is polluting the planet at a terrible rate, you must find ways of plugging up all the sources quickly and preventing any further eruptions! Why, only a few years ago, Iceland destroyed all air transport in Western Europe by careless venting of its energy sources! Happy New Year.
It's some work going on in that, and pretty interesting as well, however, the co2 emission from Katla volcano, when not erupting, makes the rest look like droplets, and it's a story in want to do sometime on this channel