In early January, Ukraine observed an abnormally warm air temperature as for January.
The average regional air temperature over the ten-day period was 3.2-6.1 °C above the norm in the southern and 1.2-3 °C in the Transcarpathian regions and ranged from minus 2.3 in Transcarpathia to plus 0.8 °C in the south.
Precipitation in most of the country was observed for 1-4 days in the form of drizzle, rain, snow and wet snow. In most regions, the average rainfall per ten-day period was 6-25% of the norm (1-5 mm), in the eastern, Poltava, Vinnytsya, Kyiv, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv regions – 26-50% of the norm (4-10 mm). In the Zhytomyr, Khmelnitsky and Ternopil regions the amount of precipitation was 67-75% of the norm (8-9 mm).
As of January 10 in the fields in the eastern, north-eastern, Khmelnytsky, Chernivtsi, and in places in the Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Transcarpathian, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovograd and Zaporizhzhya regions the snow cover did not exceed 1-7 cm, in the Carpathian mountains it ranged from 11 to 30 cm. The depth of soil freezing at the end of the ten-day period in most of the country ranged from 1 to 10 cm. In many areas of the central, Kharkiv, individual regions of the Kyiv, Mykolayiv, Odesa and Khmelnitsky regions the depth of soil freezing ranged from 11 to 20 cm. In the Donetsk, Volyn, in some areas of the Rivne, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odesa, Zaporizhzhya, Luhansk, Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions the soil was thawed.
During the ten-day period winter crops were in a shallow winter dormancy, there were no threatening phenomena for wintering winter and fruit crops throughout the country.