It wasn't a white Christmas for the residents of the coastal community. At 19.8 degrees, the old record for December was broken by 0.1 degrees.
Birgir Örn Höskuldsson, a meteorologist at the Icelandic Meteorological Institute, tells the country's public service broadcaster RUV that the conditions for the temperature record have been created because there is warm air over the country and it is quite windy.
When the air is warm and the wind is strong, cumulus clouds can form over the mountains, and the air is heated in downward air currents.
It is under such circumstances that monthly records are usually set, says Birgir Örn Höskuldsson.
