Ukraine to be covered by snowfalls, blizzards, and sharp cold snap down to -23°C
Kyiv • UNN
On January 8-9, Ukraine is expected to experience snow, blizzards, and ice, with up to 25 cm of snow in some places. On January 10-11, a sharp cold snap down to -23°C is forecast in the western, northern, Vinnytsia, and Cherkasy regions.
In the coming days, a deterioration of the weather is expected in Ukraine. Forecasters predict snow, blizzards and a sharp cold snap, UNN reports with reference to the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center.
On January 8-9, a complication of the weather is expected in the western, northern regions, as well as in Vinnytsia and Cherkasy regions.
Forecasters of the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center predict:
- snow and blizzards. In the western, Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr regions, significant snow – 10–25 cm, wind gusts up to 15–18 m/s, blizzards. On the roads – snow drifts;
- ice and wet snow. In Kyiv and Chernihiv regions – heavy snow and wet snow (up to 25 cm in places), blizzards, snow sticking, ice on the roads. In the south of Kyiv and Chernihiv regions, in Sumy and Cherkasy – snow with rain, ice in places.
January 10-11, a sharp cold snap! In the western, northern, Vinnytsia and Cherkasy regions – at night 14-20° below zero, in places up to 23°, during the day 9-15° below zero; in Kirovohrad and Poltava – 6-12° below zero; in the south, east and Dnipropetrovsk regions – from 4° below zero to 4° above zero.