Warm and dry weather prevailed in Ukraine from November 10 to 20. The average regional air temperature per ten-day period in the eastern, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson, Mykolayiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Chernihiv and Sumy regions ranged from 3.8 °C in the east to 10.9 °C in the west of the country. The maximum air temperature increased to 12-18 °C and to 20-22 °C in the southern (except Zaporizhzhya) regions and Transcarpathia. On cold nights during the ten-day period the minimum air temperature dropped to minus 1-6 °C, and in the Odessa, Kirovograd, Vinnytsya, Zhytomyr, Khmelnitsky, Ternopil, Chernivtsi and Rivne regions – up to 0-1 °С. The soil surface in the coldest nights cooled from minus 6 °С to plus 1 °С. On warm days, the soil surface heated to 15-31 °C. Small precipitation was observed for 1-3 days mainly in the western, northern and central regions. The average regional rainfall in the southern, eastern, western (except Chernivtsi), Zhytomyr, Sumy and Poltava regions ranged from 1 to 20% of the ten-day norm (1-5 mm), in the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhya regions there was no precipitation at all. In the Kirovograd, Vinnytsya, Chernivtsi and Chernihiv regions, the ten-day rainfall amounted to 31 to 47% of the ten-day norm (4-8 mm), in the Kyiv and Cherkasy regions – 63-67% of the norm (10 mm).
The rather warm weather with fogs and drizzle was favorable for the growth and development of winter crops, especially for late crops. In a number of areas, the number of fruticous crops increased. However, in some places in the central and southern regions, part of the crops remained in a weak and underdeveloped state, in places the crops only formed uneven seedlings, in some places the grain of winter crops did not sprout.