Virginia is a four-season state. August days can be - on the average - hot and humid, while January days can be cold and dry. The warmth in the air in early Spring, and the chill in the air in the Fall, feel different from other seasons. That's the climate pattern.
A hydric soil is a soil that is saturated, flooded, or ponded long enough during the growing season to develop anaerobic conditions in the upper part. 1  This definition can be broken up into three component parts: 2  The soil is saturated, flooded or ponded. Saturated conditions are often the result of a high water table.
Four types of technical information about hydric soils are presented. 1. The current definition of a hydric soil -- This definition has been consistent in the overall concept that hydric soils are those soils that are sufficiently wet in the upper part to develop anaerobic conditions during the growing season.2.hese criteria CANNOT be used in the field to determine hydric soils. The purpose of the criteria is to generate a list of soil map unit components that are likely to meet the hydric soil definition. Caution must be used when comparing the list of hydric components to soil survey maps.