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 forecast. Cars: below the level where our road score is capped (20 m/s sustained or 25 m/s gusts). Campervans and RVs: above the ~15 m/s guideline for campervans. Hold doors firmly when opening them.

Strong wind on the way at the Reynisfjall pass: up to 21 m/s forecast. Stronger than at your stops, and easy to underestimate from a town forecast. Cars: at or above the level (20 m/s sustained or 25 m/s gusts) where our road score is capped at 55. Campervans and RVs: above the ~20 m/s rental limit and the ~15 m/s guideline for campervans.

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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