Some regions parched, others underwater in latest meteorological surprises.

Divers brave minus 45C to place a 'New Year Tree' beneath the ice on bed of the mighty Lena River.

Abnormally hot May weather resembles midsummer with air temperatures as high as +35C.

Residents of Krasnoyark take to boats to go to work, while an unusual July snowstorm hits Yakutia.

Yakutia in a white blanket as temperatures dip to minus 6C as winter 'comes too soon'.

Summer 2020 follows unusually hot and dry spring in swinging between the extremes.

Russia's coldest region is up to 20C milder than average this month, say meteorologists. 

A dozen out of the 15 teams finished the race which began three weeks ago.

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

New evidence of climate change as blazes come six weeks early in 2014.