2012-05-14

Dust storms in cold dry weather and strong winds

Yesterday, today, and probably for the next couple of days, we expect dust storms off the sandur and ash fallout areas in the south of Iceland. There is no rain in forecasts in the south till Friday, and tomorrow the forecast is for a strong northerly wind still (13 m/s), then more SE at 7 m/s on Wednesday, which might be enough.

At noon today the weather map looked like this (en.vedur.is)

image At 12 on Monday, 14 May 2012.

Satellite image from 12:20 today shows a dust storm just east of Mýrdalsjökull.

20120514_modis1220_crop

Yesterday, around 15:10 there was also a dust/ash storm visible.

20120513_modis_1510_crop

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