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.
These are listed in the order in which they can be used to definitively indicate whether soils are hydric and the area is a wetland. 1  Histosols (except Folists)*. 2  Histic epipedon 3  *. Sulfidic materials (H2S) in mineral soils emitting the smell of rotten eggs. 4  Aquic moisture regime (usually hydric soil) or peraquic moisture regime*.