Dry weather and strong winds are causing sediment from glacier rivers to blow in the SE of Iceland 19 and 20 November 2015. There was a recent jökulhlaup from Skaftárkatlar (material blown in the center of the images below).
Wind speed at Skarðsfjöruviti shows that the wind speed, gusts, exceeded 10 m/s around noon on the 19 November.
Below are MODIS and Landsat images from around 13:50 on 19 November.
MODIS image from 13:50 on 19 November 2015 (Image courtesy of NASA/Rapidfire).
Landsat 8 image 19 November 2015 (Landsat 8 image from NASA and USGS).
Reykjavík has also been dry and windy, and the PM10 concentration relatively high; up to 200 µg/m3 30-min averages on 18 November 2015.
