Undoubtedly the last couple of weeks in November have been very mild across Iceland, but don’t forget the cold weather back in October that brought the red warning for heavy snow from the IMOIMO Icelandic Meteorological Office (Icelandic: Veðurstofa Íslands) is Iceland's national weather service and as such a government agency under the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. It is also active in volcano monitoring, volcano seismology, and together with other institutions, responsible for civil protection in Iceland. This is climate in action, some weeks are warmer than average and some are colder. I reckon the 7 to 8 degrees are the result of foehnFoehn A foehn, is a type of dry, relatively warm, downslope wind that occurs in the lee (downwind side) of a mountain range. It is a rain shadow wind that results from the subsequent adiabatic warming of air that has dropped most of its moisture on windward slopes (see orographic lift). As a consequence of the different adiabatic lapse rates of moist and dry air, the air on the leeward slopes becomes warmer than equivalent elevations on the windward slopes. winds at stations in the north of the island like we saw in Snowdonia in the last week. I would like to have produced a thermograph with anomalies for Reykjavik but they don’t publish daily extremes so this will have to do a town on the south coast.
