Crops in the United Kingdom showed below conditions during this reporting period. Summer crops (including sugar beets) have been harvested, and winter crops (winter wheat, winter barley and rapeseed) have been planted. The country experienced unusually favorable - and sometimes catastrophic -  weather conditions with an increase of the CropWatch agroclimatic indicators, especially rainfall (up 48% compared to average). As shown by the NDVI profiles, national NDVI values were lower than average from November  to January, but close to average NDVI by mid-October. According to the crop condition map based on NDVI, close to 65.9% of the country recorded lower than average NDVI from October to January. Only 34.1% of the region was higher than the average (Somerset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, West Middands and Cheshire). This spatial pattern is also reflected by the maximum VCI in the different areas, with a VCIx of 0.92 for the country overall. The