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.
1 Clay soil has a higher CEC count than sandy soil, meaning that it has more capacity to hold hydrogen ions, but not that it necessarily holds enough hydrogen ions to make it consistently acidic.  Clay soil requires fewer chemicals to lower the pH than sandy soil does, making it appear more acidic.