In the second and third ten days of November in Ukraine, the weather was extremely heterogeneous across the territory. In the eastern regions, its winter character prevailed with low average daily temperatures, the first significant frosts and the formation of a snow cover, while in the western regions the weather was very warm for mid-November with daytime temperatures that sometimes exceeded 10 °С. There was a deficit of precipitation throughout the country. In the northern, central, southeastern and western regions, their number did not exceed mainly 30-70% of the norm. In the eastern half of the country, with the exception of the Luhansk and some districts of the Kharkiv region, there was no precipitation at all.
The average regional air temperature in the eastern, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson, Mykolayiv, Kirovograd, Poltava and Sumy regions was by 1.2-5.3 °C below the norm, and in the Odesa, Cherkasy, Kyiv and Chernihiv regions it was close to the norm. In the western, Zhytomyr and Vinnytsya regions were 1.2-3.8 °C above the norm and ranged from 6.1 °C in the west to minus 3.4 °C in the east of the country. The maximum air temperature rose to 6-9 °С, and in the southern (except for Zaporizhzhya), western, Vinnytsya and Kirovograd regions – up to 10-14 °С.
Light precipitation was observed for 1-4 days in the form of snow, sleet and rain, mainly in the western, northern and central regions. The daily maximum precipitation in some areas of the Sumy, Chernihiv and south of Odesa regions reached 15-25 mm.
As of November 20, there was no snow in the fields. Only in the northern districts of the Sumy, Kharkiv and Luhansk regions there was snow cover up to 2-9 cm high, in places in the Cherkasy, Kirovograd and Kyiv regions – up to 2 cm. In the second and third ten day periods of November, agrometeorological conditions in Ukraine were quite satisfactory.