Uzbekistan
Our weekly trip to an exotic locale takes us to the center of Asia, and the nation of Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan is one of only 2 doubly landlocked nations in the world (the other is Liechtenstein) and is very far away from any major bodies of warm water. As such, Uzbekistan is quite dry. They have one of the widest annual temperature variations, getting up over 100 degrees often in the summer, with temperatures regularly dropping below 0 in the winter, especially in those lonely deserts of the western part of the state.
Uzhydromet is the Uzbek meteorological service. Even in the English version, their site is predominantly written in Cyrillic. I can't get at any of the forecasts or anything else, but they all have English headers. No maps that I can find either. Very strange.