It comes as no surprise that the past month was one of the wettest on record. The precipitation in Reykjavík was 159 mm (6.3 in). This is almost double (90%) above the average for February. We must go back to 1991 to find more precipitation during February.
Weatherblogger Trausti Jónsson, who is also the best known meteorologist in Iceland, told the local newspaper Morgunblaðið that past February in Reykjavík was the fifth wettest on record.
Read more: Photos, videos: Storm turns Reykjavík streets, parking lots into lakes and rivers
The average temperature in Reykjavík was slightly below the average for the past 10 years, but 0.6°C above the long term (1961-1990) average.
Trausti notes on his blog that the average temperature for Iceland in February was 0.4°C above the past ten years and 1.5°C above the long term average. He notes that complaints from locals who feel that this winter has been unusually cold are based on skewed perceptions: This winter has indeed been colder than some recent years, especially last winter (2016-17), but recent winters have been unusually warm. In fact 2016-17 was the warmest on record.
The warm climate of recent decades has created a new normal – weather which was considered rather temperate 30 years ago is now considered unusually cold.
It comes as no surprise that the past month was one of the wettest on record. The precipitation in Reykjavík was 159 mm (6.3 in). This is almost double (90%) above the average for February. We must go back to 1991 to find more precipitation during February.
Weatherblogger Trausti Jónsson, who is also the best known meteorologist in Iceland, told the local newspaper Morgunblaðið that past February in Reykjavík was the fifth wettest on record.
Read more: Photos, videos: Storm turns Reykjavík streets, parking lots into lakes and rivers
The average temperature in Reykjavík was slightly below the average for the past 10 years, but 0.6°C above the long term (1961-1990) average.
Trausti notes on his blog that the average temperature for Iceland in February was 0.4°C above the past ten years and 1.5°C above the long term average. He notes that complaints from locals who feel that this winter has been unusually cold are based on skewed perceptions: This winter has indeed been colder than some recent years, especially last winter (2016-17), but recent winters have been unusually warm. In fact 2016-17 was the warmest on record.
The warm climate of recent decades has created a new normal – weather which was considered rather temperate 30 years ago is now considered unusually cold.
