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Vatnsskarð weather station, Skagafjörður, Iceland IMO quake map and diagram re. 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull. Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO; Icelandic: Veðurstofa Íslands) is Iceland's national weather service and as such a government agency under the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. [1]
Get the Eskifjoryur, Sudur-Mulasysla local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Melting of Iceland’s glaciers could raise sea levels by a centimeter, [28] which could lead to erosion and flooding worldwide. [29] Locally, glacial recession could cause crustal uplift, [28] which could disrupt buildings. Some places in Iceland have already seen the crust rise at a rate of 40 millimeters per year. [28]
From 2016, the Icelandic Meteorological Office (Veðurstofa) manages a 192 teraFLOPS dual Cray XC30 system for DMI as weather forecast, due to cheaper electricity and cooling. [4] One is used for development, the other for daily operations. Data traffic between Iceland and Denmark uses two 10 Gbit/s cables [5] (Danice/FARICE-1). The XC30s are ...
A glacial flood in southern Iceland inundated a ring road on Saturday, causing a section at one end of the nearby bridge to give way and tear apart, the country's meteorological office said in a ...
F roads are unpaved tracks that may only be driven in vehicles with four-wheel drive.Some include unbridged rivers that must be forded. [1] Trying to drive on an F-road with a normal passenger car means a large risk of being stuck outside of phone coverage and is a breach of Icelandic traffic law, for which one can get a fine.
Route 1 or the Ring Road (Icelandic: Þjóðvegur 1 or Hringvegur pronounced [ˈr̥iŋkˌvɛːɣʏr̥] ⓘ) is a national road in Iceland that circles the entire country. As a major trunk route, it is considered to be the most important piece of transport infrastructure in Iceland as it connects the majority of towns together in the most densely populated areas of the country.
' Land Road ') or Route 26 is a national road in Southern Region. It runs from the ring road near Hella through the Landssveit area to the intersection of Þjórsárdalsvegur. From there it is called Sprengisandsleið, although this name is also refers to Route F26, which starts at the end of Route 26 near Þórisvatn. [1]