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Meet ‘The Weather Keeper’ who lives in a lighthouse at the edge of the world

Weather Keeper_Interior_v9_5.jpg © 2026 by Elizabeth Haidle, used with permission from Enchanted Lion Books

In 2021, The New York Times published an article titled “Monitoring the Weather at the Edge of the World.” It was about a farmer named Marsibil Erlendsdottir, who was running one of 71 manned weather stations in Iceland.

Her job, the article said, was to check the readings on the weather instruments at her station every three hours day and night, no matter the weather, and record

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