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garden picture The Goose Lake Weather station is located in USDA plant hardiness zone 5a. The predominant soil types are 69A—Milford silty clay loam, and Bryce, shale substratum-Calamine silty clays.

Interested in determining the soil types in your backyard? Check out the USDA/NRCS Web Soil Survey page.

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Soil Information

Last updated:07/30/10 4:35 PM
Soil Temperature1 Soil Moisture2 Frost Depth3
4 inch: 79.0°F
Max:80.0°F  Min:77.0°F
4 inch: 200.0 cb 0 inches
12 inch: 77°F 12 inch: 69.0 cb
24 inch: 75°F 24 inch: 19.0 cb
36 inch: 72°F 36 inch: 1.0 cb

1Daily maximum and minimum 4 inch soil temperatures since midnight.
2Soil moisture is measured in centibars(cb).
  Note: When the soil moisture sensor is frozen, it will read approximately 200 cb.
3Read manually from a frost tube.

Centibar Reading Soil Condition
0-10 Saturated Soil. Occurs for a day or two after irrigation.
10-20 Soil is adequately wet (except coarse sands which are drying out at this range)
30-60 Usual range to irrigate or water (except heavy clay soils). Irrigate at the upper
end of this range in cool humid climates and with higher water-holding
capacity soils.
100-200 Soil is becoming dangerously dry for maximum production.

Soil Temperature Graph Soil Temperature Graph
4 Inch Soil Temperature 4 Inch Soil Moisture

Rain and Evapotransporation

Rainfall Evapotransporation
Today: 0.01 in Today: 0.06 in
Month: 3.36 in Month: 5.63 in

Precipitation Past 12 Months

Rainfall last 12 months

Forecast Rainfall

forecast rainfall data provided by NOAA
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Day 2
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Day 3
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Day 4-5
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5 Day Total
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Excessive Rainfall
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Monthly Climate Data for the Upper Midwest

data courtesy The Midwestern Regional Climate Center (MRCC)

Long Range Outlooks

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