Tornado - first since 1954 - signals freak downpour, opening craters in roads which swallow up cars.

Built just five years ago, western sanctions over Ukraine stop international cooperation at climate change research facility in Arctic.

Daring video from kids in Russia’s coldest region urges actor to take the ice bucket challenge to show all is well with Siberian weather.

Hopes fade of finding 13 people, six weeks after Tyva Avia aircraft went missing in remote and mountainous region.

It may seem unusual but sunbathing in snow and wearing nothing more than a swimming costume in -10C can help fitness.

Some regions parched, others underwater in latest meteorological surprises.

Ekaterina and Yulia popularise yoga in Tynda but taking it into the great outdoors.

Winter comes to summer including freak hailstorms, mega-flooding but also wild fires.

As temperatures sunk to minus 50C and below, schools and kindergartens were closed for the world's hardiest children.

Bad weather preventing clean up amid fears for endangered sea lions.