The country experienced warm weather at the beginning of the first ten-day period of February, but on February 8-9 with the active cold atmospheric front passing through the country, there was a sharp cooling during which the average daily air temperature in eastern, sometimes central and southern regions decreased to minus 8-14 °C, which is 1-9 °C below normal. In the rest of the country, the average daily air temperature at this time was 0-5 °C.
Precipitation of varying amounts and intensities was observed throughout the country within 3-8 days. In most parts of the country, the ten-day rainfall ranged from 150 to 300% (18 to 39 mm), and in the Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson, Chernivtsi and Ivano-Frankivsk regions it was 310-670% of the norm (31-67 mm). In the Volyn, Rivne, Kyiv and Poltava regions, the amount of precipitation per ten-day period was close to normal (10-15 mm), and in the Sumy, Chernihiv and Zhytomyr regions – 64% of the norm (7 mm).
As of February 10, in most of the country the snow thickness did not exceed 1-10 cm, in most areas of Odesa, Chernihiv, Chernivtsi, Lviv, Volyn, Zhytomyr, some areas of the Kyiv, Mykolayiv, Kirovograd, Dnipropetrovsk, Vinnytsya, Khmelnitsky, Rivne there was no snow in the fields.
The weather conditions for wintering winter crops in Ukraine were generally satisfactory.