Watching during the pandemic from Eugene, Oregon. I hope we get snow this year, ideally around Christmas. We don't get much snow around here, but we're far enough north to get those long, dark December nights and cobalt blue twilight after sunset. The city lights at night in December have that same, familiar jewel-like glow here, too. Truly magical.
+Flankymanga Skoda cars are very popular here in Iceland. They have been for sale here like "forever" long before the VW corporation took over and modernized the brand. Skoda today is considered, in Iceland, a better quality brand than many other car models within VW. This is the Icelandic Skoda dealership website: www.skoda.is/
+finnurth Ohh now you got me. Thats pretty a shock to me because i thought that we have manufactured them home only for our domestic market and sold them maybe only in neighbouring countries. But to see them they made it to Iceland... makes me kind of proud :)
I used to live in Iceland for six years I love driving in the snow it’s my favourite hobby I don’t get scared behind the wheel like most people in North America people behind the wheel drive in snow the panic in the crash of the drivers I want to avoid
I do miss the snow here in the Netherlands. Not even one flock of snow!! Last time was in the winter of 2013 I think. A very good reason to visit iceland in the winter! But first... I will visit Iceland this summer.
I live in Mexico and I have never seen snow, I´m 24 years old. My parents told me when I was exactly 4 months old (December 5th, 1997), snowed in my town (San Luis Potosí)
2015 Nov 28 at 03:26 UTC (2015 Nov 27 at 22:26 EST or 2015 Nov 27 19:26 PST) Northern daylight limit: 69º36'22.3" N (North of this latitude at solar noon is polar night) Northern civil twilight limit: 74º46'22.3" N Northern nautical twilight limit: 80º46'22.3" N Northern astronomical twilight limit: 86º46'22.3" N Southern daylight limit: 67º56'22.3" S (South of this latitude at solar midnight is midnight sun) Southern civil twilight limit: 62º46'22.3" S Southern nautical twilight limit: 56º46'22.3" S Southern astronomical twilight limit: 50º46'22.3" S It is located 360 km south of Polar Night limit, 175 km south of Midnight Sun limit, 268 km south of Arctic Circle.
Went on holiday to Iceland 2 years ago enjoyed it very much visited Blue Lagoon fantastic never got to see northern lights went on late night bus trip too cloudy ....damn
I don't know why but everytime watch this video I played background “Acid ghost - I don’t need you” I hope one day I driving this highway with my 2008 diesel Hyundai Tucson
Some will think I'm stupid, but I would like it to be another real winter with us. For years there has hardly been a real winter here in the federal state of Hesse. It used to be different, even in Frankfurt am Main, known for its airport, even there there was snow, 100 meters above sea level. Today there is only snow with rain in Frankfurt, if at all, nothing remains, 100 meters above sea level. As a small child, my grandmother was able to pull me on the Main (river through Frankfurt) with the sledge. If someone thinks that people would be happy about it, they are only partially right, the older people, to whom I belong, miss the real winter. I am 70 years old and I have to say that, as it is at the moment, too warm for this time of year, it is 10 ° C plus. We're not doing so well there, the older people have a problem with that, me too. We used to have very cold winters, so by our standards. We had -5 ° C during the day and 12 ° C at night. If I had money like I don't have, I would move to Reykjavik, that's not a joke, I'm honest. I think your country is really great even though I've never been there. Well, now I'm not moving either, at 70 it's too late, and our children are here and I don't want to leave them. But I am trying to visit your country once, I think it will be very beautiful!
I loved seeing this video. I live here in Brazil and here we don't have snow. My country is really warm. I've never seen snow! By the way, I also liked to see the parked cars in the streets of the city at dawn. In the brazilian big cities this doesn't happen (only in the small towns people let their cars in the streets ) because if you let your car in the brazilian streets, at night, there are a lot of robbers... In the other day your car can't be there. I saw another interesting thing: The highway is illuminated. Usually our highways aren't like this. If you want to drive at night here in my country, obviously you need to turn your car's headlight on. I really loved this video and I loved the snow falling on the car wheeling in the Iceland highway.
Edilson Palmieri Thank you for watching and commenting! The highway you see is actually just between suburbs so yes, they are illuminated. If you leave the city area and drive in the countryside then we have no illumination, just reflective wooden sticks by the side of the road. It's a good thing that we can drive in the countryside and park somewhere safe (out of traffic) and turn the lights off and experience pitch black night in the winter. That makes the night sky clearly visible which is fantastic especially if we have auroras (northern lights) dancing in the sky! :)
I obviously miss winter as well.. I guess its coming to us soon enough! Cant wait to test my new Hakkapeelitta 8s out. (I just noticed that you are using the Hakka 8s in the clip, nice.) I had a set of useless all seasons last year that came with the car (Figured I should test them, when they were "free".- Completely useless tires. Looking forward to the Hakka 8s. Nice video. Therapeutic really.
2015 Nov 28 at 03:26 UTC, during autumn. Before winter solstice = Autumn After winter solstice = Winter It was 66 days past autumnal equinox (September 23rd, 2015) and 24 days before winter solstice (December 22nd, 2015), on November 28, 2015. The moon was 4.3 days past perigee (Perigee on November 23rd, 2015) and 7.5 days before apogee (Apogee on December 5th, 2015), so the Moon's apparent diameter was relatively large. 2015 Nov 28 at 03:26 UTC, True position and ecliptic Coordinate / Sun / Moon Right Ascension / 16h14m35.9s / 06h19m23.7s Declination / -21º13'37.7" / +18º19'57.6" Semi-Diameter / 16'12.6" / 15'53.3" Eq. Hor. Parallax / 8.9" / 0º58'20.6" November 28, 2015 in Reykjavik, Iceland Sunrise: 10:36 AM Sunset: 03:54 PM Daylight: 5 hours, 18 minutes (5.3 hours) Dawn (Before Sunrise) Twilight Astronomical Dawn: 07:25 AM Nautical Dawn: 08:23 AM Civil Dawn: 09:28 AM Dusk (After Sunset) Twilight Civil Dusk: 05:02 PM Nautical Dusk: 06:07 PM Astronomical Dusk: 07:05 PM
I find it quite likely that we will have snow by then. The weather in the Reykjavik area has been quite ridiculous so far, while countries like Sweden have been having bad weather including heavy snowfall for the past few weeks, we are having none of that. It's still in the second week of December and it's all clear, very calm weather and temperatures around 5 to 9 C (41 to 48.2 F). It's a stark contrast compared to last year.
finnurth thanks dude! Yeah my home of northern ireland is warm for this time of year too (it was 15c today) I was in iceland the same time last year (mid jan) and it looked amazing covered in snow. Hoping for the same!
Highly likely in the end of December, and extremely likely in January until at least March. Here I am talking about the capital area only. If you are prepared to go to other parts of Iceland, you will definitely encounter snow in the coming weeks. The weather in the capital region has not been as warm as now for the past 100 years! As you can see from my videos the weather was vastly different last year. You can get weather info here: en.vedur.is/
Hi Александр Буланов, thank you for watching and commenting! In the beginning, from minute 8:49 I am going faster than the drivers on the right lane, even though the Porsche on my right does catch up with me a couple of times. Nobody is behind me. At 9:58 I catch up with a couple of cars but the tunnel is ending and I have no idea how the conditions are exiting the tunnel so I slow down. By right I should move over to the right lane there, and if conditions would have been better, I would have! Here I find safer to use the space and stay on the left side instead of changing lanes with my car, that is equipped with automatic gear box (if I use manual, I would press down the clutch and move over easily, I find automatic more unpredictable). At 11:08 I let the cars pass me and right after, with no cars around, I move over to the right lane and stay there until I make a left turn on 12:48. Normally, when conditions are better, I use left lane only for passing. in Iceland drivers have the tendency to stay on the left side and cars keep passing the right. That is of course dangerous and I am very much against it, but it is unfortunately part of the driving culture in Iceland, especially on local roads like this within the city limits.
+jlwc88 I am using the all famous Nokian Hakkapeliitta 8, Nokian Tyres, the most advanced studded tyre on the winter tyre market, with 190 studs on each tire. Size 215/65 R16. This setup makes makes the driving very easy, the car will not get stuck, nor will it lose control easily.
Thank you! I did see some of it, it was shown on the main TV channel here. It really rained a lot which affected the game! However, next game will be harder, with the true Indonesian national football team, not a team that has been selected by the fans.
finnurth yes that's right,,Iceland's player enjoyed our city so rich about culture in here and they love our sun, because in Iceland they Can't see sun enough to much,because almost every month in a winter season lol.
I miss Iceland. I better take my new Audi Quattro on the ultimate drive there, since most of Sweden is nothing but rain these days. How badly do you salt the roads?
Stygian Doll The roads in the fairly densly populated greater Reykjavik area (capital) get salted quite abit. The weather is usually changing all the time so the conditions are unpredictable. The weather is more stable in northern Iceland, colder and more snow during the winter. Thank you for watching and commenting!
+Chris Markakis That's a tough one, no way to predict. However in southwestern part of Iceland, the capital region, snow can arrive as early as October but can also more commonly stay away throughout most of December and the first proper snow can arrive around x-mas time. In the northern part of Iceland snow is more common and can sometimes snow every day and it arrives earlier, and more importantly, the snow stays put! In Reykjavik area the snow can fill the streets one day and be gone the next. We have a lot of rain in Iceland, and this year the month of October we had all time rain record in Reykjavik but it was relatively warm, so no snow. We now see snow in the mountains in the capital area, those mountains are just only about 900 m high above sea level.
Chris Markakis In 2015, in Reykjavik, we had a total precipitation of 1025 mm, which was 24% more than usual, we had a total of 252 days with some rain or snow, 179 days where rain or snow went over 1 mm, over the year the ground was covered with snow of a total of 70 days, and 256 days had no snow at all. I do not know number of days with actual snow fall, only the number of days with snow or rain. You can google translate this page: www.vedur.is/um-vi/frettir/nr/3271
+Nick Karipidis I use about 12-13,5 liters per 100 km in town which is my usual driving. Driving in the countryside will consume about 9 liters/100 km. 1 liter costs today 190 ISK/ liter which is 1.71 USD, or 6.47 USD / Gallon. I have been driving about 2100 km / month so I guess I have been consuming about 277 liters /month which makes around 52800 ISK or 474 USD in petrol/gas per month. My commute to work is only about 10 minutes drive, but I do drive a lot extra.
+Nick Karipidis You can see the relevant information here: www.rsk.is/english/individuals/tax-liability/ Take note in the text that from those percentages we have a tax credit of 51920 ISK per month that is DEDUCTED from your calculated tax. That means of you have a very low income of 139899 ISK per month (maybe low paid part time work) that your calculated tax will be cancelled out by the tax credit and your tax will be 0%. 139899 ISK is about 1264 USD or 1139 EUR or 1013 GBP.
finnurth thanks for your reply - we will be visiting Iceland in December and will drive and everyone suggested snow chains but I gather that there has to be quite an amount of snow to use them right?
We prefer to use good winter tires, some also prefer them to be studded. I you are using a rental car I think they will come with good winter tires. Roads are cleared of snow pretty quickly here and in the capital region the the weather changes so quickly that the snow doesn't stay for long anyways. I also recommend that your rental car will have some type of all wheel drive system, does not have to have the option of permanent 4WD as long as you are staying within the normal road system. Off road driving is forbidden and is anyway not covered by any insurance here and that includes also many roads in the high lands. I was able to drive everywhere before the snow was cleared in the record snowfall (for capital region) of 20 inches (51 cm) using Honda CRV, model 2006, all wheel drive using studded winter tires. See: th-cam.com/video/NTwFqtZL4rs/w-d-xo.html I hope that you will have a great trip to Iceland, remember, the weather is always changing, so expect any type of weather at anytime!
finnurth WOW thanks again for the info. Yeah I did some research and had found that the road 1 is the first to be cleared which is good since our travels will mostly consist of driving on that road - we are going to visit the south area but still will take things slow and according to the weather. If I remember correctly our rental is a 4WD but need to check regarding tyres to see if they will be studded or not but once again thanks for the info! We can't wait to visit!!!
+TheTransfiguredCosmos Astra is dying...it's consuming 2 liters of oil for every 300 km I drive it. I am about to sell or dispose of the car, hopefully I can at least sell the tires! :)
+TheTransfiguredCosmos High oil consumption seems to be common with this engine, even though in my case it's extreme. See: www.migweb.co.uk/forums/engines-transmission/297404-ecotec-16v-1600-excessive-oil-consumption-have-i-entered-vauxhall-twighlight-zo.html
Adam wickerts No snow at all for the past few days in the capital region where I live! It's almost like spring, temperatures around 6 to 11 C. But of course, we are still in the middle of the winter so things can change very quickly. :)
I love ur country and I want to come there someday lol..I am from Indonesia..don't forget to watch football match between Indonesia against Iceland in Indonesia,Jakarta
I hardly ever use that program, but I do have it. Not much snow here at the moment! I don't think the match will be on TV for Icelandic audience. Maybe streamed?
Pro Gamer x13 Well, actually 5, but arabic, russian and chinese are not among them... I use google translate for those :) Thank you for watching and commenting!
I could watch this for three hours straight. So relaxing. No talking, no music tracks in the background. Thanks for making it!
Joel Walden You are welcome! :)
Exactly why I came here too.
So true!
This is officially the most relaxing video on TH-cam
The weather, the snow, the road, the sound of the engine... this is a genuine ASMR video.
I miss winter already thats why im watching this :)
Me too mate
yeah me too
so Enjoy this.. th-cam.com/video/sYlTYpPF_AY/w-d-xo.html I hope that You will like it.
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People find it weird when I tell them I love autumn and winter but hate summers.
I am swedish and i am waiting for snow. Right now just watching this to get more excited about snow. Thanks for making it.
You must go through a lot of windscreen wiper blades in winter
What a wonderfully smooth car you have. Nice video.
mark1968 Thank you!
I live in the second most cold city in the world!! It snows until June and starts snowing in early October.
Greetings from Winnipeg, Canada! 🇨🇦
AHH, I have been waiting for this, I love to see the snow, thank you for the video.
It feels so Real
The snow, the golden lights... just wow. Amazing drive, just imagine you wouldn't encounter any other drivers...
Thank you for watching and commenting! :)
No prb, keep uploading this amazing stuff. Summer here, and I'm watching snow vids ;P
Watching during the pandemic from Eugene, Oregon. I hope we get snow this year, ideally around Christmas. We don't get much snow around here, but we're far enough north to get those long, dark December nights and cobalt blue twilight after sunset. The city lights at night in December have that same, familiar jewel-like glow here, too. Truly magical.
Ahh this is the real winter stuff... I plan to visit Iceland in the future.
+Flankymanga Welcome anytime! Thank you for watching!
finnurth But i was surprised are Skoda cars being sold in Iceland? I just watched other video and seen Octavia model...
+Flankymanga Skoda cars are very popular here in Iceland. They have been for sale here like "forever" long before the VW corporation took over and modernized the brand. Skoda today is considered, in Iceland, a better quality brand than many other car models within VW. This is the Icelandic Skoda dealership website: www.skoda.is/
+finnurth Ohh now you got me. Thats pretty a shock to me because i thought that we have manufactured them home only for our domestic market and sold them maybe only in neighbouring countries. But to see them they made it to Iceland... makes me kind of proud :)
I'm off to Iceland this week and the forecast is for snow. I'm glad I don't have to drive in it.
I hope you will enjoy your trip! :)
I used to live in Iceland for six years I love driving in the snow it’s my favourite hobby I don’t get scared behind the wheel like most people in North America people behind the wheel drive in snow the panic in the crash of the drivers I want to avoid
Yeah I miss spell most of the stuff oh well who cares
I wish we got snow where I live :(
+Noah Inkrot Where do you live?
finnurth Tennessee
+Noah Inkrot I'll hope got the snow in your citys:) in my city came the snow,but very smoll
+A Girl In BaRRmundi same where i live
If you long for winter, move to a place where you can have it. That longing will not go away.
I do miss the snow here in the Netherlands. Not even one flock of snow!! Last time was in the winter of 2013 I think. A very good reason to visit iceland in the winter! But first... I will visit Iceland this summer.
+Leo Huisman I hope you will have a good stay in Iceland this coming summer! Thank you for watching!
I love it!!! I haven't seen snow like that in many years. I live in Germany near Cologne and miss the snow, ofcourse I don't have to drive in it!
I live in Mexico and I have never seen snow, I´m 24 years old. My parents told me when I was exactly 4 months old (December 5th, 1997), snowed in my town (San Luis Potosí)
Beautiful city and winter, its my plan go to reykjavik in the future
+Petrox Games and Vlogs The winter definitively be beautiful, but sometimes a bit windy. You are welcome anytime to Iceland! Thank you for watching!
your drive on a Reikjavik highway
Sorry i wanna say what reykjavik highway you drive in?
thanks love from colombia
We got snow in Houston, Texas last year and lost power. It was like the end of the world lol.
Send more videos of winter Iceland excellent video
2015 Nov 28 at 03:26 UTC (2015 Nov 27 at 22:26 EST or 2015 Nov 27 19:26 PST)
Northern daylight limit: 69º36'22.3" N (North of this latitude at solar noon is polar night)
Northern civil twilight limit: 74º46'22.3" N
Northern nautical twilight limit: 80º46'22.3" N
Northern astronomical twilight limit: 86º46'22.3" N
Southern daylight limit: 67º56'22.3" S (South of this latitude at solar midnight is midnight sun)
Southern civil twilight limit: 62º46'22.3" S
Southern nautical twilight limit: 56º46'22.3" S
Southern astronomical twilight limit: 50º46'22.3" S
It is located 360 km south of Polar Night limit, 175 km south of Midnight Sun limit, 268 km south of Arctic Circle.
Went on holiday to Iceland 2 years ago enjoyed it very much visited Blue Lagoon fantastic never got to see northern lights went on late night bus trip too cloudy ....damn
Nice that you had a good time, despite not catching the Northern lights that time. Hope you get the chance to come again!
I don't know why but everytime watch this video I played background “Acid ghost - I don’t need you” I hope one day I driving this highway with my 2008 diesel Hyundai Tucson
Thanks for the ride, really enjoyed it..
It occurred on November 28, 2015 during autumn. Winter started early due to approach to the polar cicle.
Some will think I'm stupid, but I would like it to be another real winter with us. For years there has hardly been a real winter here in the federal state of Hesse. It used to be different, even in Frankfurt am Main, known for its airport, even there there was snow, 100 meters above sea level. Today there is only snow with rain in Frankfurt, if at all, nothing remains, 100 meters above sea level. As a small child, my grandmother was able to pull me on the Main (river through Frankfurt) with the sledge. If someone thinks that people would be happy about it, they are only partially right, the older people, to whom I belong, miss the real winter. I am 70 years old and I have to say that, as it is at the moment, too warm for this time of year, it is 10 ° C plus. We're not doing so well there, the older people have a problem with that, me too. We used to have very cold winters, so by our standards. We had -5 ° C during the day and 12 ° C at night. If I had money like I don't have, I would move to Reykjavik, that's not a joke, I'm honest. I think your country is really great even though I've never been there. Well, now I'm not moving either, at 70 it's too late, and our children are here and I don't want to leave them. But I am trying to visit your country once, I think it will be very beautiful!
"Wreckyourvehicle", Iceland. Never was a place more suitably named.
How long!I was getting homesick of your videos!
I loved seeing this video. I live here in Brazil and here we don't have snow. My country is really warm. I've never seen snow! By the way, I also liked to see the parked cars in the streets of the city at dawn. In the brazilian big cities this doesn't happen (only in the small towns people let their cars in the streets ) because if you let your car in the brazilian streets, at night, there are a lot of robbers... In the other day your car can't be there. I saw another interesting thing: The highway is illuminated. Usually our highways aren't like this. If you want to drive at night here in my country, obviously you need to turn your car's headlight on. I really loved this video and I loved the snow falling on the car wheeling in the Iceland highway.
Edilson Palmieri Thank you for watching and commenting! The highway you see is actually just between suburbs so yes, they are illuminated. If you leave the city area and drive in the countryside then we have no illumination, just reflective wooden sticks by the side of the road. It's a good thing that we can drive in the countryside and park somewhere safe (out of traffic) and turn the lights off and experience pitch black night in the winter. That makes the night sky clearly visible which is fantastic especially if we have auroras (northern lights) dancing in the sky! :)
I obviously miss winter as well.. I guess its coming to us soon enough! Cant wait to test my new Hakkapeelitta 8s out. (I just noticed that you are using the Hakka 8s in the clip, nice.)
I had a set of useless all seasons last year that came with the car (Figured I should test them, when they were "free".- Completely useless tires. Looking forward to the Hakka 8s.
Nice video. Therapeutic really.
I used Dębica Frigo HP 2 here on FWD car th-cam.com/video/sYlTYpPF_AY/w-d-xo.html
Looks just like here in the winter :) I'd love to go to Iceland one day.
Visit anytime! Thank you for watching!
im from iceland and this is icelandic langeuage hæ er er frá íslandi lol
U guys are quite lucky since coronavirus didnt last that long there, i hope you're family is safe during this difficult time
Thanks for the shivers!!!!!! You seem to live in a ghost town!
+Showdown Yes, it's truly a ghost town at 3:30 am :) Thank you for watching!
No wonder then!
Schön super ich will mal gerne Island besuchen in aller Jahren Zeiten..Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus dem Deutschland germany
2015 Nov 28 at 03:26 UTC, during autumn.
Before winter solstice = Autumn
After winter solstice = Winter
It was 66 days past autumnal equinox (September 23rd, 2015) and 24 days before winter solstice (December 22nd, 2015), on November 28, 2015.
The moon was 4.3 days past perigee (Perigee on November 23rd, 2015) and 7.5 days before apogee (Apogee on December 5th, 2015), so the Moon's apparent diameter was relatively large.
2015 Nov 28 at 03:26 UTC, True position and ecliptic
Coordinate / Sun / Moon
Right Ascension / 16h14m35.9s / 06h19m23.7s
Declination / -21º13'37.7" / +18º19'57.6"
Semi-Diameter / 16'12.6" / 15'53.3"
Eq. Hor. Parallax / 8.9" / 0º58'20.6"
November 28, 2015 in Reykjavik, Iceland
Sunrise: 10:36 AM
Sunset: 03:54 PM
Daylight: 5 hours, 18 minutes (5.3 hours)
Dawn (Before Sunrise) Twilight
Astronomical Dawn: 07:25 AM
Nautical Dawn: 08:23 AM
Civil Dawn: 09:28 AM
Dusk (After Sunset) Twilight
Civil Dusk: 05:02 PM
Nautical Dusk: 06:07 PM
Astronomical Dusk: 07:05 PM
wipers make me crazy
We don't have winter in my country but this is very relaxing
Why no one cleans their windshield? How hard it is ? For me, cleaning the windshield of my car makes me feel more safe to see the road
Ahh! Use your windscreen washer to get rid of the ice...using the wipers is painful
Nice scenery
Check my countryside in winter, Poland ...we don’t slow down 😂 th-cam.com/video/sYlTYpPF_AY/w-d-xo.html
What time of day is it in this video??
03:26 a.m. (middle of the night).
How much snow does Iceland get every winter?
yourfriendinreykjavik.com/weather-in-iceland/#:~:text=The%20average%20temperature%20ranges%20from,of%206.7%E2%80%B3%20of%20snowfall%20overall.
How likely is it to be snowy in mid January in Reykjavik? i am visiting around that time and worried there won't be any :-(
I find it quite likely that we will have snow by then. The weather in the Reykjavik area has been quite ridiculous so far, while countries like Sweden have been having bad weather including heavy snowfall for the past few weeks, we are having none of that. It's still in the second week of December and it's all clear, very calm weather and temperatures around 5 to 9 C (41 to 48.2 F). It's a stark contrast compared to last year.
finnurth thanks dude! Yeah my home of northern ireland is warm for this time of year too (it was 15c today)
I was in iceland the same time last year (mid jan) and it looked amazing covered in snow. Hoping for the same!
finnurth
Hi mate I was just wondering which months am I most likely to get snow in?
Thinking of visiting from London.
Highly likely in the end of December, and extremely likely in January until at least March. Here I am talking about the capital area only. If you are prepared to go to other parts of Iceland, you will definitely encounter snow in the coming weeks. The weather in the capital region has not been as warm as now for the past 100 years! As you can see from my videos the weather was vastly different last year. You can get weather info here: en.vedur.is/
Ry Telford very likely.
Im from Istanbul, ı cant see snow about last 3 years. before that every year was snowy
tamam
Traffic is as light as in Oslo at 4 am.
Beautiful town.
LegendMeadow This is filmed around 3:30 am at night, as stated in the description :) There will be much more traffic during the day.
great stuff, dont forget to upload similar in 2020!
LOVE Iceland. They take chess seriously.
Best video to watch before hibernation. Zzz..
why did you drive in the left hand lane?
Hi Александр Буланов, thank you for watching and commenting! In the beginning, from minute 8:49 I am going faster than the drivers on the right lane, even though the Porsche on my right does catch up with me a couple of times. Nobody is behind me. At 9:58 I catch up with a couple of cars but the tunnel is ending and I have no idea how the conditions are exiting the tunnel so I slow down. By right I should move over to the right lane there, and if conditions would have been better, I would have! Here I find safer to use the space and stay on the left side instead of changing lanes with my car, that is equipped with automatic gear box (if I use manual, I would press down the clutch and move over easily, I find automatic more unpredictable). At 11:08 I let the cars pass me and right after, with no cars around, I move over to the right lane and stay there until I make a left turn on 12:48. Normally, when conditions are better, I use left lane only for passing. in Iceland drivers have the tendency to stay on the left side and cars keep passing the right. That is of course dangerous and I am very much against it, but it is unfortunately part of the driving culture in Iceland, especially on local roads like this within the city limits.
I love snowww
Where you get the grip from?
+jlwc88 I am using the all famous Nokian Hakkapeliitta 8, Nokian Tyres, the most advanced studded tyre on the winter tyre market, with 190 studs on each tire. Size 215/65 R16. This setup makes makes the driving very easy, the car will not get stuck, nor will it lose control easily.
Do Iceland spec cars come with block heaters?
americanstylefreak I would say no. It does not really get so cold here so there is no need.
I had no idea Iceland had trees!! hahaha.
RDC Tarantula yes we do have trees but, admittedly, not many forests!
Most of iceland is tundra, but not all of it.
+RDC Tarantuala Are you fucking serious??? Every country in the world has tree!!...
I done some shopping in Iceland today
I went to get ingredients to rake a Victoria sponge together 😂
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I wish it snowed here like this more often
Thank you for watching! Where do you live?
Iceland got win in match against Indonesia..congratulation
Thank you! I did see some of it, it was shown on the main TV channel here. It really rained a lot which affected the game! However, next game will be harder, with the true Indonesian national football team, not a team that has been selected by the fans.
finnurth yes that's right,,Iceland's player enjoyed our city so rich about culture in here and they love our sun, because in Iceland they Can't see sun enough to much,because almost every month in a winter season lol.
I miss Iceland. I better take my new Audi Quattro on the ultimate drive there, since most of Sweden is nothing but rain these days.
How badly do you salt the roads?
Stygian Doll The roads in the fairly densly populated greater Reykjavik area (capital) get salted quite abit. The weather is usually changing all the time so the conditions are unpredictable. The weather is more stable in northern Iceland, colder and more snow during the winter. Thank you for watching and commenting!
+finnurth how many snowfalls u got in iceland approximately per winter?
+Chris Markakis That's a tough one, no way to predict. However in southwestern part of Iceland, the capital region, snow can arrive as early as October but can also more commonly stay away throughout most of December and the first proper snow can arrive around x-mas time. In the northern part of Iceland snow is more common and can sometimes snow every day and it arrives earlier, and more importantly, the snow stays put! In Reykjavik area the snow can fill the streets one day and be gone the next. We have a lot of rain in Iceland, and this year the month of October we had all time rain record in Reykjavik but it was relatively warm, so no snow. We now see snow in the mountains in the capital area, those mountains are just only about 900 m high above sea level.
finnurth Im talking about the past winters...how many snowfalls u got approximately
Chris Markakis In 2015, in Reykjavik, we had a total precipitation of 1025 mm, which was 24% more than usual, we had a total of 252 days with some rain or snow, 179 days where rain or snow went over 1 mm, over the year the ground was covered with snow of a total of 70 days, and 256 days had no snow at all. I do not know number of days with actual snow fall, only the number of days with snow or rain. You can google translate this page: www.vedur.is/um-vi/frettir/nr/3271
How cold was it then?
about -8 C or 17.6 F
How easy is it to have a 2 liter car there ? I mean from economical point of view
+Nick Karipidis I use about 12-13,5 liters per 100 km in town which is my usual driving. Driving in the countryside will consume about 9 liters/100 km. 1 liter costs today 190 ISK/ liter which is 1.71 USD, or 6.47 USD / Gallon. I have been driving about 2100 km / month so I guess I have been consuming about 277 liters /month which makes around 52800 ISK or 474 USD in petrol/gas per month. My commute to work is only about 10 minutes drive, but I do drive a lot extra.
finnurth How much tax do you pay ? Maybe I'm coming to work there and I'd be interested in a RAV4
+Nick Karipidis You can see the relevant information here:
www.rsk.is/english/individuals/tax-liability/
Take note in the text that from those percentages we have a tax credit of 51920 ISK per month that is DEDUCTED from your calculated tax. That means of you have a very low income of 139899 ISK per month (maybe low paid part time work) that your calculated tax will be cancelled out by the tax credit and your tax will be 0%. 139899 ISK is about 1264 USD or 1139 EUR or 1013 GBP.
finnurth thanks
Where in reykjavik drive you?
I love reykjavik
by any chance are you using snow chains as well?
No, I am not, never have.
finnurth thanks for your reply - we will be visiting Iceland in December and will drive and everyone suggested snow chains but I gather that there has to be quite an amount of snow to use them right?
We prefer to use good winter tires, some also prefer them to be studded. I you are using a rental car I think they will come with good winter tires. Roads are cleared of snow pretty quickly here and in the capital region the the weather changes so quickly that the snow doesn't stay for long anyways. I also recommend that your rental car will have some type of all wheel drive system, does not have to have the option of permanent 4WD as long as you are staying within the normal road system. Off road driving is forbidden and is anyway not covered by any insurance here and that includes also many roads in the high lands. I was able to drive everywhere before the snow was cleared in the record snowfall (for capital region) of 20 inches (51 cm) using Honda CRV, model 2006, all wheel drive using studded winter tires. See: th-cam.com/video/NTwFqtZL4rs/w-d-xo.html I hope that you will have a great trip to Iceland, remember, the weather is always changing, so expect any type of weather at anytime!
finnurth WOW thanks again for the info. Yeah I did some research and had found that the road 1 is the first to be cleared which is good since our travels will mostly consist of driving on that road - we are going to visit the south area but still will take things slow and according to the weather. If I remember correctly our rental is a 4WD but need to check regarding tyres to see if they will be studded or not but once again thanks for the info! We can't wait to visit!!!
who needs a snow chains? who needs AWD? th-cam.com/video/sYlTYpPF_AY/w-d-xo.html
Video is fantastic. But, where is Astra?! : O
Greetings from Serbia. : )
+TheTransfiguredCosmos Astra is dying...it's consuming 2 liters of oil for every 300 km I drive it. I am about to sell or dispose of the car, hopefully I can at least sell the tires! :)
+finnurth R. I. P. Astra! :'-(
I have Vectra B Caravan, 2001 2.2 DTi. Great car with 508.000km to this day. :D
TheTransfiguredCosmos That's great mileage! My petrol Astra only lasted some 202.000 km.
+finnurth Z16XE? Weird, totally uncharacteristic. That engine is generally grateful.
+TheTransfiguredCosmos High oil consumption seems to be common with this engine, even though in my case it's extreme. See: www.migweb.co.uk/forums/engines-transmission/297404-ecotec-16v-1600-excessive-oil-consumption-have-i-entered-vauxhall-twighlight-zo.html
I live in the third coldest city in the world, it's called Winnipeg.
how common is this amount of snow? beacuse i was in iceland in december 2016, and there was no snow at all :( do you have snow now ?
Adam wickerts No snow at all for the past few days in the capital region where I live! It's almost like spring, temperatures around 6 to 11 C. But of course, we are still in the middle of the winter so things can change very quickly. :)
Adam wickerts hb. vn
this is very nice video
I love ur country and I want to come there someday lol..I am from Indonesia..don't forget to watch football match between Indonesia against Iceland in Indonesia,Jakarta
I didn't know that! When is the match?
finnurth at 06.30p.m Indonesia time on january 14, 2018.
Friendly match between Indonesia soccer team against Iceland soccer team in Jakarta.
finnurth dude do you have WhatsApp ? I want to see snow lol
I hardly ever use that program, but I do have it. Not much snow here at the moment! I don't think the match will be on TV for Icelandic audience. Maybe streamed?
finnurth can u share ur whatsap number ?? U can download it from ur Android phone in playstore.
Yes u can watch the soccer match with streaming
Whats the brand of car?
Honda CRV diesel, 4WD, model type from 2006, Manual gearbox with 6 gears.
@@finnurth OK, thanks
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finnurth, can I use this in a video?
Maybe, but you have to be far more specific in your request. email me directly. Email address can be found in the "about" section of the channel.
Check How we do it in Poland ...for example 16:48 😂 th-cam.com/video/sYlTYpPF_AY/w-d-xo.html
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this is realy winter:)))))
we need snow we need snow we need snow vote think we need snow
Ég sakna þess að búa í landi mínu 😪
Så flytt tilbake :)
ale zima!
my też mamy czasem nie najgorsze. th-cam.com/video/sYlTYpPF_AY/w-d-xo.html
I wish I would live in iceland :(
DasSchxf where do you live?
finnurth Germany
Then you could move here and try it out! :)
if snow falling in your places,which mean a good signs :)
If this in the U.S. there would only be wreckage everywhere.
he speaks 4 languages
Pro Gamer x13 Well, actually 5, but arabic, russian and chinese are not among them... I use google translate for those :) Thank you for watching and commenting!
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stop and clean your wipers
bit late for that...
The best recipe to ruin your wipers
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GET out of the car and clean your windshield!!!!!
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what site? Thank you anyways for giving time to comment.