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title: "Temperature in Ukraine rose by 3 degrees: how extreme climate is changing life and threatening agriculture"
description: "🌡️ Warming in Ukraine is proceeding 3 times faster than the global average — local temperature growth has exceeded 3 degrees! 🌾 Droughts, floods, soil erosion — the climate is already hitting agriculture. ❄️ Winters will become shorter and warmer, even after the severe frosts of 2025–2026. #climate #Ukraine #ecology"
date: 2026-06-10T05:04:00.000Z
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# Temperature in Ukraine rose by 3 degrees: how extreme climate is changing life and threatening agriculture

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Ukrainians no longer wait for weather forecasts to confirm it: the climate is changing. Snowless winters, heatwaves, and downpours that wash away soil in a few hours are not a coincidence, but a new reality. According to experts, warming in Ukraine is proceeding three times faster than the global average — local temperature growth has exceeded 3 degrees compared to the pre-industrial period.

### Climate acceleration: why Ukraine is heating up faster than the planet

The average global temperature has already risen by 1.3–1.4 degrees. But in Ukraine — and in Europe as a whole — the process is accelerating. As Sofia Sadogurska, an expert from the climate department of the NGO "Ekodia," explains, the reason lies in the country's geographical location and the influence of rapidly warming oceans and polar regions.

"Different regions of the planet warm up differently. Ukraine, along with Europe, is in a place that is heating up faster," the specialist emphasizes.

### From snowless winters to downpours washing away soil

Changes are visible in everyday life: winters have become shorter and warmer, and snow cover is a rarity. Summer is increasingly accompanied by waves of abnormal heat. At the same time, precipitation is distributed unevenly: instead of moderate rain, there are powerful downpours that pour a month's worth of moisture in a few hours, followed by long dry periods.

"Every year we see reports of drought in some places or floods in other regions, and they are becoming more and more frequent," notes Sadogurska.

### Threats to agriculture and water resources

The consequences are already being felt. The drought of summer 2024 covered about two-thirds of Ukraine's territory. Experts warn that water supply problems will intensify in the south and east of the country. The risks of soil erosion are growing, which directly hits agriculture. Deteriorating ecosystems and rising temperatures increase the likelihood of wildfires.

### Winters will not return: even after severe frosts

Despite the severe frosts and snowfalls of the 2025–2026 winter, climatologists do not predict a return to long, harsh winters. Periodic cold snaps will occur, but the general trend is towards a shortening of the winter season and its warming. Moreover, 2026 may go down in history as one of the warmest years on record.

The climate does not wait. It is already here — in the scorched fields, in the dried-up wells, in sudden floods. And adaptation to new conditions is becoming a matter not of the future, but of the present.