Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – February 09, 2021 – Local News /Weather
The cyclone, which entered Ukraine from the west, on Tuesday, February 9, will continue to bring snow to most regions, in the morning it will snow in 14 regions, in two more – snow with rain, in six – rain. Traffic restrictions have been imposed in seven oblasts. About 3,000 trucks got stuck along the roads due to bad weather.
On Tuesday, February 9, Kyiv continues to be covered with snow, as a result of which large-scale traffic jams have formed on the city’s roads.
The snow cyclone, which hit western Ukraine on February 7 and covered the entire country on February 8, created difficult weather conditions in most areas, which are characterized by heavy snowfall, blizzards, icy rain at sub-zero temperatures, and snowdrifts.
In the afternoon of February 8, precipitation increased almost throughout Ukraine with the intense accumulation of snow in the western, northern, central regions, in some regions with rain at sub-zero temperatures.
Since the beginning of the cyclone, most snow (up to 30 cm) has fallen in Volyn, Lviv, Rivne, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, and Kyiv regions.
On February 9 in most oblasts, there will be snow, in Kharkiv and northern oblasts there will be significant snowstorms at daytime air temperature 0 …- 5 ° С; in the center significant wet snow, accumulation of wet snow, ice at daytime air temperature 0 … + 5 ° С (I level of danger – yellow); in Transcarpathia and the south wet snow and rain at daytime temperature +6 … + 11 ° С. The wind will be southeast, shifting to the northwest, 7-12 m / s, with gusts of 15-20 m / s in places.
The situation on the roads:
On the morning of February 9, heavy snow in Lviv, Chernivtsi, Ternopil, Volyn, Rivne, Khmelnytsky, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Sumy, Donetsk, Luhansk regions at temperatures up to 10 degrees below zero. Snow and rain in Zakarpattia, Kirovohrad regions.
Rains in Ivano-Frankivsk, Odessa, Nikolaev, Zaporozhye areas at an air temperature to 3 degrees of heat; in Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava ice rain at a temperature of -7°.
“The condition of the roads on state roads in most areas is snowy, in some places there are snowdrifts,” the road workers added.
Snow (up to 10 cm on the ground per night) on the pass sections of roads of Zakarpattia and Lviv regions, rain in Ivano-Frankivsk region. The road surface is wet and snowy in places.
On roads of the state, important works on the processing of a covering of roads by anti-ice materials, clearing off a carriageway of roads from snow are carried out.
“Due to difficult weather conditions in some areas, restrictions have been imposed on the movement of freight transport,” Ukravtodor said.
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Source: Ukraine Gate