Climate Trends in Ukraine

• In Ukraine, annual rain at 5 stations is shown as a percent difference from each station's own 1961-1990 mean, for 69 years from 1951 to 2019.
• The trend in annual rain is +2.3 percent per decade (95 percent interval -1.5 to +6.2), fitted to 69 years from 1951 to 2019. The interval includes zero, so the series does not separate a trend from year to year variation.

Annual rain against the 1961-1990 mean

The annual rain series uses stations with at least 50 complete years since 1951 and a 1961-1990 baseline. The decade charts use fixed sets of stations, the same in every decade from the 1960s. A dry day has less than 1 mm (0.04 in) of rain.

• In Ukraine, the longest run of hot days in a row in the data is 23 days, at Lugansk (Ukraine), from 27 July 2010 to 18 August 2010.
• In Ukraine, the longest run of days in a row at or above 40 C in the data is 2 days, at Askaniia Nova (Ukraine), from 2 August 1998 to 3 August 1998.
• In Ukraine, the longest run of frost days in a row in the data is 149 days, at Poltava (Ukraine), from 18 October 1908 to 15 March 1909.
• In Ukraine, the longest run of ice days in a row in the data is 97 days, at Debaltseve (Ukraine), from 11 December 1953 to 17 March 1954.
• In Ukraine, the longest run of dry days in a row in the data is 334 days, at Ai-Petri (Ukraine), in 1923.
• In Ukraine, the longest run of wet days in a row in the data is 36 days, at Play (Ukraine), in 1974.
• In Ukraine, the longest run of longest run of nights at or above 25 c in the data is 10 days, at Cape Kazantip (Lh) (Ukraine), from 24 July 2001 to 2 August 2001.

Longest run of days at or above 35 C

Consecutive days with a daily maximum at or above 35 C (95 F).

Longest run of days at or above 40 C

Consecutive days with a daily maximum at or above 40 C (104 F).

Longest run of frost days (minimum at or below 0 C)

Consecutive days with a daily minimum at or below 0 C (32 F).

Longest run of ice days (maximum at or below 0 C)

Consecutive days with a daily maximum at or below 0 C (32 F).

Longest dry spell (days under 1 mm of rain), within one year

Consecutive days with less than 1 mm (0.04 in) of rain, the longest run within a year. The dates are not kept, so the list gives the year (within the year).

Longest wet spell (days with 1 mm or more of rain), within one year

Consecutive days with 1 mm (0.04 in) or more of rain, the longest run within a year. The dates are not kept, so the list gives the year (within the year).

Longest run of nights at or above 25 C

A run belongs to the year it started in, even when it ran on into the next year. A station appears once per list, with its longest run in a complete year. Dry and wet spells are the longest run within a year. Lists use complete years only, so a long run in a year with gaps in the record is not counted.

• In Ukraine, the largest reported one day rise in the daily maximum is 21.8 C (39.2 F), at Mohyliv-Podilskyi (Ukraine) on 13 January 2001.
• In Ukraine, the largest reported one day drop in the daily maximum is 29.4 C (52.9 F), at Poltava (Ukraine) on 17 January 1964.
• In Ukraine, the largest reported one day rise in the daily minimum is 25.8 C (46.4 F), at Lugansk (Ukraine) on 1 February 1980.
• In Ukraine, the largest reported one day drop in the daily minimum is 21.4 C (38.5 F), at Uman (Ukraine) on 28 December 1930.
• In Ukraine, the largest reported widest range between the high and the low of one day is 31.9 C (57.4 F), at Poltava (Ukraine) on 20 January 1969.

Caveat.Single readings can still be instrument errors that quality control missed. A station with one faulty value can top a list, so read each entry as a reported value, not as a confirmed event.

Biggest one day rise in the daily maximum

The largest increase in the daily maximum temperature from one day to the next. Values are in degrees Celsius with Fahrenheit beside them.

Biggest one day drop in the daily maximum

The largest decrease in the daily maximum temperature from one day to the next. Values are in degrees Celsius with Fahrenheit beside them.

Biggest one day rise in the daily minimum

The largest increase in the daily minimum temperature from one day to the next. Values are in degrees Celsius with Fahrenheit beside them.

Biggest one day drop in the daily minimum

The largest decrease in the daily minimum temperature from one day to the next. Values are in degrees Celsius with Fahrenheit beside them.

Widest range between the high and the low of one day

The largest difference between the highest and the lowest temperature of the same day. Values are in degrees Celsius with Fahrenheit beside them.

Only stations with at least 10 complete years are listed, and a station appears once per list.

• In Ukraine, the share of stations with a hot and dry summer is shown for each year from 1911 to 2005, for 22 stations with at least 20 complete summers in 1961-1990. Each year counts the stations of that set with a complete summer in the year.
• In Ukraine, 6.9% of station summers in 1961-1990 were hot and dry (650 station summers).
• In Ukraine, 13.6% of station summers in 1991-2005 were hot and dry (286 station summers).
• In Ukraine, 1946 had the highest share: 55.0% of 20 stations (11).

A summer is hot when its mean daily maximum is at or above the station's 80th percentile of its 1961-1990 summers, and dry when its rain is at or below the 20th percentile. A summer is hot and dry when it is both. Summer is June to August north of the equator and December to February south of it, labelled by the year of its first month.

Share of stations with a hot and dry summer

The ten most extreme station summers

Ranked by the temperature z score minus the rain z score against the station's own 1961-1990 mean and standard deviation (at least 0.3 C and 5 mm). A summer is labelled by the year of its first month.