Freak climate conditions sees an abnormally warm November.
Destruction of trees by flames could see Batagai Depression ‘rapidly enlarge’ while remote local settlements also threatened.
Temperatures of up to 35C force exodus to river and lake beaches.
With all Siberia's seven time zone now below zero, this theory seems mad.
Here are some seasonal pictures as western Siberia gets its debut whiteout of the autumn.
Vineyards will flourish as winters become almost 10C milder heralding a large population influx, says new scientific prediction.
New evidence of climate change as blazes come six weeks early in 2014.
Tyva republic registers Saudi-like heat but is also hit by wildfires.
'Siberia is so far away that it feels as if it's not quite real? It's time to change the way the world thinks about our land', says Taisia Kaigorodova.