"I’ve never seen anything like this weather"

“It’s been raining hard many times, but this is unusual now,” farmer Ragnar Rúnar Jóhannsson in the farm Kverná-Neðri in Grundarfjörður told mbl.is.

There has been a huge amount of precipitation in the west of Iceland in the last few days and the Icelandic Met Office has warned of increased risk of landslides.

Jóhannsson says he has become accustomed to a lot of fallout in the autumn and spring, but it is usually over shorter periods.

“It’s usually one and a half days. Once we had the lambs outside and there was 135 millimetres of rain outside. We could have bought a life belt on the lambs and put them out like that.”

The biggest impact is on the haymaking

He says that most of the sheep and lambs were in the mountain before the rain began, so they were not in danger from the water.

“This has the most impact on haymaking. It’s bad to get the water down the roads on the fields, then the grass is suppressed. Everything was floating yesterday (Saturday), but has decreased today.”

Fortunately, there is no wind

Ingi Hans Jónsson has lived in Grundarfjörður for almost seven decades and said he has never experienced anything like this.

“I’ve never seen anything like this weather. It’s still a little windy and rainy here. It’s something else,” he says and laughs.

He says, however, that it is blessing that there is no gale-force wind with this extensive rainfall.