Iceland records 17.2C in unusually warm November weather

Iceland’s highest temperature on Monday reached 17.2C in Bakkagerði, in Borgarfjörður eystri in eastern Iceland, mbl.is reported. Seyðisfjörður also recorded warm weather, with a high of 15.4C.

The unusually high November temperatures are being driven by a strong area of high pressure over Scotland and a trough near Hvarf, bringing warm, moist southerly winds, according to a meteorologist at the Icelandic Met Office.

A weather front is expected to approach from the west overnight. Southerly winds will continue on Tuesday morning, becoming strong or gale-force in many places, with considerable rain. Conditions will improve in the northeast, while after the front passes the wind will turn southwesterly and ease, bringing a few showers first to western Iceland towards midday. Cooler air will follow, and temperatures will gradually fall.