The average daily air temperature climbed over 100? on April 1-10 (on April 11-22 in the northeasternmost areas), or 10-25 days ahead of the long-term average. At the time, precipitation in Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk regions amounted to 54-69% of normal (7-9 mm). Odesa, Cherkasy, Zakarpattya regions, most parts of Mykolaiv, Kherson, Kirovohrad regions and single areas in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Vinnytsia, Lviv and Rivne regions received no precipitation at all. Winter rape plantings are at the stages of stem growth, emergence of inflorescence, and even at the beginning of bloom in some southern areas. Their condition is mostly good and fair, being poor in some northern areas