{"id":1337091,"date":"2025-12-26T09:41:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T07:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/iceland-recorded-a-record-breaking-december-temperature-of-almost-20-c-on-christmas-eve\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T09:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T07:41:20","slug":"iceland-recorded-a-record-breaking-december-temperature-of-almost-20-c-on-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/iceland-recorded-a-record-breaking-december-temperature-of-almost-20-c-on-christmas-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland recorded a record-breaking December temperature of almost 20\u00b0C on Christmas Eve."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"86\" data-end=\"250\"><strong>Iceland set a new temperature record for December, with the temperature reaching 19.8 degrees Celsius on Christmas Eve.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This was reported by the national broadcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frettir\/innlent\/2025-12-25-desemberhitamet-fell-i-198-stiga-hita-a-seydisfirdi-462311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">R\u00daV<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"252\" data-end=\"412\"> The record was set in the town of Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur in the east of the country. In neighboring Bakkagerd, the temperature also approached the record mark, reaching 19.7 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"414\" data-end=\"526\"> The previous December high dated back to December 2, 2019, when Quisqueria recorded 19.7 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"528\" data-end=\"797\"> Icelandic Meteorological Office meteorologist Birgir \u00d6rn Heskuldsson explained that the record-breaking temperatures were made possible by a combination of a warm air mass and strong winds. These conditions create downdrafts near the mountains, further warming the air.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"799\" data-end=\"907\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> According to the expert, it is precisely these weather scenarios that most often lead to the setting of temperature records.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iceland set a new temperature record for December, with the temperature reaching 19.8 degrees Celsius on Christmas Eve. This was reported by the national broadcaster R\u00daV . The record was set in the town of Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur in the east of the country. In neighboring Bakkagerd, the temperature also approached the record mark, reaching 19.7 degrees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":298067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1337091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}