The people of Reykjavik and the South-West coast of Iceland have suffered from severe lack of sunshine this summer, so when the sun showed its rays on Sunday this past weekend, it made the headlines.
According to a meteorologist at the Icelandic Met Office, the 3.9-hours of Sunday sunshine was a highest number of hours recorded in nearly two weeks. Although only three days have been completely without sun in the capital, for its residents, it certainly seems like there have been more.
When put in historical context, the hours of sunshine in Reykjavik in July add up to 50.6-hours total, compared to the average of 109.1-hours between the years of 1961 and 1990. Those roughly 50-hours are also under the 135.9-hour average in the last ten years. To find a month of July with less sunshine than this summer, we have to go back 25-years. The coming weekend looks promising in the sunshine department for the south coast of Iceland, but until then, the good weather will continue to stay on Iceland’s east coast.
The people of Reykjavik and the South-West coast of Iceland have suffered from severe lack of sunshine this summer, so when the sun showed its rays on Sunday this past weekend, it made the headlines.
According to a meteorologist at the Icelandic Met Office, the 3.9-hours of Sunday sunshine was a highest number of hours recorded in nearly two weeks. Although only three days have been completely without sun in the capital, for its residents, it certainly seems like there have been more.
When put in historical context, the hours of sunshine in Reykjavik in July add up to 50.6-hours total, compared to the average of 109.1-hours between the years of 1961 and 1990. Those roughly 50-hours are also under the 135.9-hour average in the last ten years. To find a month of July with less sunshine than this summer, we have to go back 25-years. The coming weekend looks promising in the sunshine department for the south coast of Iceland, but until then, the good weather will continue to stay on Iceland’s east coast.
