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Watch out for a closed Hverfisgata as of this week.

Hverfisgata closed for traffic all summer

19 May 2016 The central street of Hverfisgata is now closed for all car traffic due to road work between Klapparstígur and Smiðjustígur.

All mountain roads closed in Iceland - and will remain so for a while!

13 May 2016 All mountain roads in Iceland are still closed due to snow and they will not be opening anytime soon according to the Iceland Road Administration.

Kit Harington. aka Jon Snow with his girlfriend, actress Rose Leslie.

Jon Snow finds love in Iceland under the Northern Lights

13 May 2016 Actor Kit Harington, better known as the hero Jon Snow, the bastard son of the Lord Winterfell in the Game of Thrones, met his girlfriend Rose Leslie on set in Iceland.

Bad weather for travelling today

3 May 2016 Snow, sleet, rain and wind are expected in North and North West Iceland today, as well as in parts of South Iceland according to reports by the Iceland Met Office.

Winter weather strikes Iceland again

28 Apr 2016 Police and rescue services were called out several times during the night to assist with vehicles mired in snow on impassable roads.

Hotel guests enjoying some food by the river.

Heliskiing trips at North Iceland luxury hotel

27 Apr 2016 US travel company Eleven Experience have begun helicopter skiing trips from the new Deplar Farm luxury hotel in North Iceland.

Heiðar Logi Elíasson is Iceland's first pro-surfer. Describing himself as "out of control" as a child, he says that surfing changed his life.

"Always creating my own adventures"

25 Apr 2016 Heiðar Logi Elíasson was diagnosed with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) when he was 5 years old. He spent the next ten years medicated on ritalin and in constant trouble. Today, however, he's become Iceland's first pro-surfer, a yoga-teacher and tells Iceland Monitor how sports and clean, healthy food changed his life.

Iceland has not seen last of the snow

25 Apr 2016 The fine spring weather currently gracing most of the country will not last long – with snow and falling temperatures forecast for parts of northern and eastern Iceland later this week.

VIDEO: Snowboarding the Iceland way

18 Apr 2016 Scotty Lago and Greg Bretz were part of the US team who came to Iceland for the Iceland Winter Games, which took place in the northern town of Akureyri 24 March-3 April.

Winter storm batters Iceland

18 Apr 2016 Heavy snowfall and gale-force winds affected many parts of the country from yesterday afternoon, putting an end to the spring-like weather enjoyed throughout the week.

The weather is taking a sharp turn for the worse tomorrow, with snow and gale force winds. Many mountain roads are likely to become impassable.

Weather warning from the Iceland Met Office for Sunday

16 Apr 2016 The Icelandic Meterological Office has sent a weather warning for tomorrow, Sunday, for heavy snowfall and gale force winds.

Winter freeze at Lake Mývatn with temperatures of -22 C

30 Mar 2016 It may be April 1st on Friday but it's definitely still winter at Lake Mývatn in North Iceland with temperatures plunging to -22 C and -25.3 in the Mýlandsöræfi highlands.

Heavy winds will be seen all along the South Coast tomorrow night.

Storm to hit Iceland Thursday night

30 Mar 2016 The Iceland Met Office predicts heavy winds through most of South Iceland tomorrow night and a storm towards the south coast.

Iceland’s spring winter wonderland

29 Mar 2016 According to current weather forecasts, the country will not be fully clear of midday sub-zero temperatures until Thursday.

Konrad Koarbiewski and Anna Friz live in Seyðisfjörður and used the sounds of a snowstorm to make an experimental musical work.

Icelandic storm used to make a musical work

27 Mar 2016 Artists Konrad Koarbiewski and Anna Friz, who live in Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland, have created an audiovisual landscape in a work called Fjarðarheiði, which premiered at the 44th Festival Nouveau Cinéma in Canada last autumn.