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.
Cover: All of the soils on the cover are hydric soils. The soil in the top left meets. requirements of the indicator S7, Dark Surface; the one in the top right meets the. requirements of A11, Depleted Below Dark Surface; the one in the bottom left meets.