Rúnar Karlsson Rúnar Karlsson | Saturday December 23 - 2006

Stinky fish and rolling seas

The skate feast at my wife´s grandmother home. The
The skate feast at my wife´s grandmother home. The "old man" with some tears in his eyes from the smell
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Today is the Day of Saint Thorlak. It´s a long tradition in the West Fjords of Iceland to eat stinky skate fish on that day (don´t ask me why!) and during the last decade or so, this tradition has spread all over the country. The skate fish is put in a large container for some period until the ammonia smell becomes worse than in a lousy bar toilet on a Sunday morning. Yummi......
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Sigurður Jónsson Sigurður Jónsson | Thursday December 21 - 2006

Rollercoaster ride of lows.

Temperature in Bolungarvik
Temperature in Bolungarvik
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Since Monday we have had a very interesting rollercoaster ride of lows. Sunday we had beautiful cold weather and were skiing in fresh powder. Since then the temperature has gone up to +13 degrees with pouring rain and southwesterly winds of 20 m/s and again down to freezing with snow....
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Sigurður Jónsson Sigurður Jónsson | Saturday December 16 - 2006

Powder skiing...

Tungudalur Ski Area on December 16th
Tungudalur Ski Area on December 16th
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We heard from our friend Jim Gudjonson in Golden, British Columbia that he is enjoying great snow conditions in his mountains. A week of snow cat skiing in the Monashee Mountains in 80 cm of powder..... sounds awesome! Jim was skiing with us last spring and is bringing another group for May 2007. We don't have 80cm of powder in Isafjordur now but today was absolutely beautiful day - cold, clear and yes... with perhaps 15-20cm of powder....
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Sigurður Jónsson Sigurður Jónsson | Thursday December 14 - 2006

An ice free Arctic before 2040?

Arctic ice
Arctic ice
Date presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting suggests that Arctic sea ice is no longer recovering from the summer melt and that the ice pack may show very rapid losses in the near future. Calculations show that late summer in the Arctic will be ice-free by 2040 or earlier, well within a lifetime....
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