Very warm weather for late autumn continued to prevail in Ukraine in the first ten days of November with a high anomaly of both the average ten-day (2.5-5.6 °C) and the average daily air temperature (on warm days 5-8 °C) .
The average regional air temperature for a ten-day was in the Odesa, Vinnytsya, Khmelnytsky, Lviv, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi and Transcarpathian regions by 1.0-2.9 °C, in the rest of the territory by 3.2-5.7 °C above the norm and ranged from 6.4 °C to 9.1 °C. The maximum air temperature rose to 13-15 °С, in the southern, Donetsk, Lviv and Transcarpathian regions – up to 16-18 °С.
Precipitation of varying amounts and intensity was observed for 1-3 days almost throughout the country. Their average regional number in the Odesa, Mykolayiv, Kirovograd, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Khmelnytsky and Chernivtsi regions ranged from 17 to 50% of the ten-day norm (2-6 mm), in some areas of these regions there was no precipitation at all. In the Poltava, Ternopil and Lviv regions, from 55 to 67% of the ten-day rainfall rate (6-8 mm) fell. The amount of precipitation was close to normal in the Volyn, Chernihiv, Kyi, Vinnytysa, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhya regions – 8-15 mm. In the rest of the country, the average regional precipitation ranged from 140 to 215% of the ten-day norm (from 14 to 28 mm).
Agrometeorological conditions for the growth and development of winter crops were quite favorable during the ten-day period. Due to predominantly cloudy weather, there was no significant decrease in nighttime temperatures. The level of air temperature averaged over a ten-day and was significantly higher than the biological “zero” of winter crops, the number and intensity of frosts was insignificant. Such weather components significantly extended the autumn growing season under favorable soil moisture conditions. Considering the large number of late crops, this was a very favorable factor for improving the phase development of crops.