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Reykjavik, Iceland
Last June in Reykjavík was so cloudy that you would need to go back a century to find a gloomier one.
RÚV reports that for the entire month of June, the sun has appeared for a grand total of 70.6 hours; less then 10% of the 720 total hours in the month. Consequently, the average temperature was 1.6° below the monthly average, barely reaching 13°.
Meteorologist Elín Björk Jónasdóttir says
there has not been a gloomier June in 100 years, and that there is no one explanation for this.
"There has been, for example,
an unusual situation in the upper atmosphere, and this jet stream which is so important to us is in the wrong place compared to what we're used to," she told reporters. "Which pours low pressure systems over us... There's also a very cold sea now south and southwest of Iceland."
Comment: USGS have noted six quakes above magnitude 2 since the start of the year, and two of them were above M4. For the most part the UK is considered seismically quiet so this is unusual - and evidenced by the reaction of the people quoted in the article - and one wonders whether the recent revelation of the fault line in London has anything to do with it:
- Geologists discover London sitting on two serious fault lines, capital at risk of dangerous earthquake
- Second quake in 2 days strikes Surrey, UK - M2.4 rattles houses
It also seems that globally seismic, geologic and volcanic activity seems to be on the increase: