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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] It is also active in volcano monitoring, [2] esp. volcano seismology, [3] and, together with other institutions, responsible for civil ...
e. The Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources ( Icelandic: Umhverfis- og auðlindaráðuneytið) is an Icelandic cabinet-level ministry founded on 23 February 1990. It was originally called the Ministry for the Environment but was renamed to its current name on 1 September 2012. The Ministry oversees a wide range of matters as they ...
The climate of the Falkland Islands is cool and temperate, regulated by the large oceans which surround it. The Falkland Islands are a British Overseas Territory located over 480 kilometres (298 mi) from South America, to the north of the Antarctic Convergence, where cooler waters from the south mix with warmer waters from the north.
The Icelandic Meteorological Office said there is a “significant likelihood” that an eruption will occur somewhere along the 15-kilometer (9-mile) magma tunnel, with the “prime location ...
The Icelandic Meteorological Office, Civil Protection, and a team of scientists from the University of Iceland are closely monitoring the situation and analyzing the developments.” ...
The Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) says the volcano could erupt with just 30 minutes’ notice as magma is now sitting just below the earth’s surface. ... Good Morning America.
The average July temperature in the southern part of the island is 10–13 °C (50–55 °F). Warm summer days can reach 20–25 °C (68–77 °F). [4] The highest temperature recorded was 30.5 °C (86.9 °F) in the Eastern fjords in 1939. Annual average sunshine hours in Reykjavík are around 1300, which is similar to towns in Scotland and ...
A study by the Icelandic Meteorological Office published in December 2009 indicated an increase in seismic activity around the Eyjafjallajökull area during the years 2006–2009. The study reported increased activity that occurred between June and August 2009 (200 events), compared to a total of about 250 earthquakes recorded between September ...