What the morning brief looks like

The real email template, rendered with a sample winter day

Example. Every figure below is illustrative, for a sample day from Vík to Höfn on 12 December. Your own brief is built from your itinerary at 06:30 each morning, from live Vegagerðin, Met Office, Open-Meteo and NOAA data, and it names the time each source was observed.

Subject line: Day 3 of 7: Vík í Mýrdal → Höfn - Iceland Roads Trip Pass

Iceland Roads

Winter south coast - Day 3 of 7: Vík í Mýrdal → Höfn

Day 3 of 7 Saturday 12 December

Here's your Winter south coast brief for Saturday 12 December.

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~3h 35m driving

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Sleet showers around Kirkjubæjarklaustur until early afternoon, clearing east of Skaftafell.

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Sunset 15:48

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Dark 17:20–08:50

Windy wind at Vík í Mýrdal: 16 m/s. High-sided vehicles and campervans are most at risk. Hold doors firmly when opening them, and consider delaying an exposed drive until conditions ease.

Strong wind on the way at the Reynisfjall pass: up to 21 m/s. Stronger than at your stops, and easy to underestimate from a town forecast. Consider timing your drive to miss the worst of it.

Your stops on Saturday 12 December:

Vík í Mýrdal - 08:30 → 09:00

Start

1°C, wind 16 m/s, 70% chance of sleet showers

Kirkjubæjarklaustur - 10:15 → 10:45

~68 min

0°C, wind 12 m/s, 55% chance of light snow

Skaftafell - 12:15 → 13:30

~60 min

-1°C, wind 8 m/s, 20% chance of overcast

Jökulsárlón - 14:30 → 15:15

~45 min

-2°C, wind 7 m/s, 10% chance of partly cloudy

Höfn at 16:15

~52 min

-2°C, wind 6 m/s, 5% chance of mainly clear

Road conditions on your route:

Check

HALKUBLETTIR · Conditions: Slippery patches

Watch out on these stretches:

Hringvegur: Mýrdalssandur (Road 1)

Caution

HALKA · Blowing sand reported 06:10

Hringvegur: Skeiðarársandur (Road 1)

Check

HALKUBLETTIR

Aurora tonight

Score: 68/100

Possible chance

Cloud: 25%, Moon: 12%, Dark: 17:20–08:50

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