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Category Archives: Atmosphere
Strong and bright Northern Lights
This evening the Northern lights over Selfoss were so strong and bright that the lights from the town did not affect them. A group of people had gathered, many of them tourist, and the atmosphere was filled with excitement. Every time the lights danced across the sky you could hear people applause, and I did too.
Info on Northern Lights on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora
The autumn’s first Northern Lights
In the last few nights Northern Lights have adorned the night sky over Iceland. From around August 20 the nights become dim enough for the Northern Lights to become visible, but in summer it is too bright. Last night, around midnight, the Northern Lights could be seen, here in the sky above the church at Úlfljótsvatn (South Iceland, near Þingvallavatn). They were bright enough to be seen despite the bright moonlight.
Blazing sunset
Casting orange and pink colours over the now calm river and the night sky makes you want time to stand still. The nights are no longer bright, sunset being at around 9.30 by now, just after the middle of August. Soon we will be saying goodbye to summer but hopefully we will get a few good days before autumn is here. The forecast is promising warm weather for the next week although perhaps a bit wet during the weekend.
Changeable weather
The Icelandic weather is very changeable, to say the least. In one day we got a selection of different weather in the southern interior, Veiðivötn, Fishing Lakes. There was sunshine, rain, hail and snow. The weather was still and sunny in the morning.
At midday clouds rolled up with hail, snow and rain.
And in the afternoon the sky was adorned with a beautiful rainbow. The Icelandic weather is seldom boring.
Pastel Colors at night
At midnight
Our home is planet Earth
Twilight at night
This time of year the sky doesn’t get dark at night. Today it is twilight all night through. For the next ten weeks the nights will be light. The midnight sun will only be seen in the northern part of the country in the latter part of June but here in the South it will be bright enough to read in the middle of the night.
The photo is taken to the north at midnight over Ölfusá River.
Eyjafjallajökull – five years from eruption
Today it is five years from the beginning of the eruption in Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland . The eruption in Eyjafjallajökull on April 14, 2010, affected economic, political and cultural activities in Europe and across the world. But it was a beautiful and a memorable event. A photo from May 1, 2010.
