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Iceland has hottest Christmas Eve ever with temperature of 19.8°C – meteorological office reports high temperatures across country and record measured at Seyðisfjörður in east

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/30/iceland-record-temperatures-christmas-eve-met-office-seyisfjorur

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Iceland has hottest Christmas Eve ever with temperature of 19.8C recorded
Authors
Helena Horton
Published
Dec 30 2025
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335 words

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  1. Bullmaestro
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    I live in South West England and Christmas Eve was about 5°C outside during the day. This is literally Iceland. While it's not as stupidly far north as Greenland and isn't practically dry-humping...

    I live in South West England and Christmas Eve was about 5°C outside during the day.

    This is literally Iceland. While it's not as stupidly far north as Greenland and isn't practically dry-humping the Arctic, it is still much further north than the British Isles and is on a latitude comparable to Norway and Finland. 19.8°C near the Winter solstice is a fucking worrying anomaly for a country with a subpolar oceanic climate.

    Even the Wikipedia page suggests a record high for Reykjavík in December to be 12 degrees. That record was smashed by nearly eight degrees. 19.8°C feels like temperatures you'd typically expect midsummer, or during an April/October heatwave.

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