Hot weather was observed in Ukraine with daytime air temperatures of 33-38 °C during most days of the third ten-day period of June,. On hot days, the average daily air temperature exceeded the climatic norm by 5-11 °C and in some areas the highest average daily air temperatures were recorded (24-27 ° C).
Almost all over the country were observed
uneven precipitation for 1-5 days – from light and moderate to heavy rains and showers, accompanied by squalls and hail.
In the Luhansk, Donetsk, Poltava, Cherkasy, Kirovograd,
Mykolaiv, Khmelnytsky, Ternopil, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk and Transcarpathian regions, their average number was 10-436% of the norm (3-10 mm). In the Rivne, Vinnytsya, Chernihiv regions, the ten-day amount of precipitation was close to the norm (27-31 mm). Most precipitation was noted in the Mykolaiv region – 142% of the norm (27 mm). In the rest of the territory, the amount of precipitation was 50-80% of the norm (12-23 mm). In some areas of Cherkasy, Poltava, Kirovograd, Vinnytsya and Kyiv regions there was no precipitation at all.
Hot weather, which prevailed for a ten-day period, led to the
acceleration of grain ripening of early breads and accelerated the development late crops in the presence of sufficient and optimal moisture supply of plants.
In areas where the amount of precipitation in June exceeded the monthly norm by 2-4 times, waterlogging of the soil was observed in places (many districts of the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya regions). Heavy rains and strong winds caused local lodging of crops of early cereals and leguminous crops, damage to cereals, horticultural and fruit crops by fungal diseases and pests of agricultural crops, and in some places mechanical damage to crops by hail.
However, in general, in Ukraine (with a decrease in temperature at the end of the third ten-day period), agrometeorological conditions were quite favorable for the formation of the crop of most agricultural crops. An intensive increase in effective heat accelerated the development of heat-loving corn, sunflower, soybeans, vegetables, the phase development of which occurred at a time close to the long-term average and somewhat later.