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Weather goes crazy in Siberia - with record high temperatures, then July snow 

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28 July 2014

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While it was hot in Kemerovo, our remarkable picture shows the giant hailstones that thudded down on the mountainous region. This came a day after an extraordinary hailstorm at the main river beach in Novosibirsk, Siberia's largest city. Picture: Sergey Repin

Thermometers have been yo-yoing in July as Siberia copes with weather extremes that have seen record-breaking summer temperatures in major cities. Despite this, freak hailstones larger than hen eggs hit Kemerovo while a beach and park in Novosibirsk was left with an icy sheen of white, like in winter. 

In Chelyabinsk region on the western fringe of Siberia, snow fell giving a ground cover of up to an unprecedented ten centimetres in the southern Urals.

In Magadan, in the extreme east, three months of rain fell in a day and a half, with locals water skiing along highways. 

Last month, Yakutsk - capital of Siberia's coldest republic, Sakha, also known as Yakutia, recorded its highest-ever 21 June temperature of 35C.

Another northern regional capital Khanty-Mansiysk has also enjoyed unusually balmy weather this summer. 

On 12 July, the city of Tomsk hit 35.9C, a maximum, and on the same day records were broken in Novokuznetsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo and Barnaul, according to weather source www.meteo-tv.ru

Girl with the hat from Yakutsk


Happy girl in bikini from Yakutsk


Couple on the beach in Kemerovo


Girl on the beach in Kemerovo


Girl on the yacht in Altai


This summer heat breaks records in Yakutsk, Novokuznetsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo and Barnaul. Pictures: Elena Mironova, Vasilisa Arkhipova, Olesya Brdyugina, Viktoria Shilova, Ekaterina Savchenko

Not everyone has been frazzled, however. In Tyumen, there was a bracing 12C, low for July. 

And while it was hot in Kemerovo, our remarkable picture shows the giant hailstones that thudded down on the mountainous region. This came a day after an extraordinary hailstorm at the main river beach in Novosibirsk, Siberia's largest city. Our pictures of this shocking cloudburst have already sped around the world.

Further west, was the extraordinary spectacle of snow in mid-July, the hottest month of the year. Resident of Zlatoust Vladimir Semyannikov said: 'It was not even the snow and rain. It was natural white flakes of snow as in the winter. It, of course, quickly melted, but the view was amazing.'

Snow was also spotted in the town of Satki, Chelyabinsk region.

Hail in Kemerovo region


Novosibirsk hail storm people in water


Novosibirsk hail storm woman coming out the water


Novosibirsk hail storm people running out of water


Hail storm in Novosibirsk people hiding

Remarkable picture shows the giant hailstones that thudded down on the Kemerovo region. This came a day after an extraordinary hailstorm at the main river beach in Novosibirsk, Siberia's largest city. Pictures: Sergey Repin, Ruslan Sokolov

According to the local media, in some areas there was a temporary snow cover of between 5 and 10 centimetres. It was claimed such snow had never previously fallen in the Southern Urals.

Chief forecaster of the Urals Department for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring Galina Sheporenko said: 'Snow fell last time in July in the Urals 100 years ago. 

'The reason for the current weather anomaly is a cold Arctic cyclone. It is small in scale but very insidious: deepening and gaining strength along the way. Because of it, the temperature dropped significantly in the region.... and snow even fell in the mountainous regions.'  

Snow falls in Chelyabinsk region


Snow on trees in Chelyabinsk region


Snow on the motorway in Chelyabinsk region


Blizzard in Chelyabinsk region

Chief forecaster of the Urals Department for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring Galina Sheporenko said: 'Snow fell last time in July in the Urals 100 years ago. Pictures: Social media

Separately, Siberia has experienced its worst flooding in living memory this summer, with the Altai Republic among the regions badly hit. 

An emergency was declared in Magadan following spectacular flooding with three times the monthly rainfall norm deluging on towns and villages within 36 hours. The floods were reported to be the worst in recorded history. 

Locals made the best of it - water-skiing on roads that turned into rivers. 

The alarm was so great that some people required psychological help as their homes were flooded, with 500 suffering a major impact from the natural disaster. Vladislav Sokolov, of state TV and radio company Magadan, Tweeted:  'Six victims of the rainfall are getting psychological support. People are shocked - their houses got washed away.'

Both Siberia and the Far East have been hit by forest fires.

Flooded Magadan


Flooded road Magadan


Road closed in flooded Magadan


Aircrafts museum in water Magadan


Surfing in flooded Magadan

An emergency was declared in Magadan following spectacular flooding with three times the monthly rainfall norm deluging on towns and villages within 36 hours. Locals made the best of it - water-skiing on roads that turned into rivers. Pictures: Vladislav Sokolov, Alexander Krylov, MagadanMedia

On 25 July, 85 forest fires covering 110,000 hectares were raging in the Siberian Federal District. Firefighters had extinguished another 26 fires covering 32,500 hectares in the previous 24 hours, but another 34 were burning the Russian Far East.

But on Monday it was reported that the areas hot by wildfires in the Siberian Federal District more than doubled to 52,300 hectares. Some 158 wildfires were registered, with Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk regions facing the most problems. Some 25 fires also broke out in the Far East of Russia.

There have been 2,049 fires on more than a million hectares in the Far Eastern Federal District this season. The district recorded 914 fires on more than 438,000 hectares a year ago.

Comments (17)

Northern Siberia was hit by NGC 40 exploding star debris stream March 23, 2019.
W. P. Sokeland, Lebanon, IN, USA
04/08/2019 23:26
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Hey! Siberia say hi! to North Pole!
Paul, India
04/03/2019 23:03
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Interesting,luv to go there.
Graham, Queensland
10/08/2017 12:29
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weather here not too bad, temp +-15 in am 28 pm lots of rain some flooding but not where i live.Capetown hot @33 degrees
chris, Johannesburg south africa
30/01/2015 23:32
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I so feel sorry for you up there
yes I live in the tropical area in Queensland where it is supposed to be winter however we only had about 1 week of cool temps its back to warm again please take care
john, queensland australia
07/08/2014 12:17
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Not sure what the alarm is, all these things have happened all my life in the NE United States. Continental weather is stormy, whether in Asia or North America. Minnesota commonly has days of 18c swings, and events with 26c swings in 24h (1896) as far back as records. Golf ball summer hail is common here, and once in a while abnormally cold rains or rarely, snow. Even NYC, buffered by the Atlantic coast, has 23c swings (1978, before GW). Don't alarm yourself: India, Queensland, or Arkansas may not see this, but inside the continent, it's been going on centuries.
Jon, Buffalo
10/08/2017 20:39
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It is forcast to be up to 113 in Portland Oregon in the next few days. This is just the start. The hotter it gets the faster it will get Hotter. Welcome to Revelations. Perhaps before we go under we will take the time to address the complete evil which has brought us to this point. To do that we must first understand it. I suggest you start with a google search for "FBI Photo Morph" and read the details of the first result carefully, it is the first brick in the road to understanding how we got here.
Dan Pride, Portland Oregon
30/07/2017 10:50
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It is impossible to overstate the infernal and eternal evil represented in the Unabomber case. It shaped the attitudes toward environmental issues for decades adding ridicule and derision of the most powerful sort. Backed by the CIA and its linked Petro powers, it provided the margin of difference and then some to elect greenhouse gas promoting George W Bush 4 years later, not environmentalist Al Gore. It went on to provide the basis for much of the anti-environmentalist propaganda and attitudes which both dominated and debilitated ecological debates since,... Eco-Nut, Eco-Terrorist, Tree Hugger, Enviro Wacho etc etc. It molded the debate, and reinforced and enabled environmental degredation at every level. The perpetrators of this penultimate crime against humanity bear much of the responsibility for the murder of not just one human or a few or six million, but of all life, and most likely forever. They are central figures in the silencing of the songbirds of earth,... forever. In 2000 the world still could have been saved from the Methane Discharge now mercilessly underway in the arctic as the summer of 2017 ominously approaches. See Unabombers.com for the real skinny on how we have been dupped, betrayed, and soon exterminated
Dan Pride, Portland Oregon
30/07/2017 10:46
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Watched a Siberian documetary about Yakutsk coldest place where people live. Fabulous Documentary. Faraway city but it looks like they have all the modern conviences. Nice cars good music people coping well with the cold weather. Atmire them, Siberia seems so massive so vast. Enjoyed all the fotos with espescially the big hailstorm during summertime, freakish weather awsome.
frans, born in holland living in hot philippines
14/01/2017 09:16
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America didn't elect a president who is an embarrassment. The USA did. Just saying.
Jay, Toronto
24/12/2016 19:33
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In America we just elected a President who says global warming does not exist, its all a hoax made up by the Chinese. I can't believe what an embarrassment Trump is.
Steven Willer, Grass Valley, California USA
27/11/2016 01:28
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I wish to visit magadan to see historical places kolyama and road of bones And gulag
Hakam khan, Pakistan
28/01/2016 02:37
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Hello lovely Siberia! Greetings from already sunny Bulgaria. We experienced just a couple of weeks ago some dramatic mega-flooding as well, and hailstones all over the country like i've never seen before, but that's how nature works, and it is evolving - evolution is going. I'm so happy to discover "Siberian Times" because i have had Siberia in my dreams, and i like documentary photography, both of which you represent in a good manner, accompanied with very nice to read and easy feeling texts - i will come back tomorrow to see what is going on in Sibera : -) Peace and love
ivo kerchev, pyce, bulgaria
15/08/2014 08:02
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take care best wishes
john, fnq qld
07/08/2014 12:24
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please take care
your women are wonderfull
john, queensland
07/08/2014 12:21
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