Belmont, NC 28012 · Gaston County · loading…
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What is the ground doing today? Let's dig in and find out.
How warm the ground is right now at four different depths, plus the air. The arrows show if it got warmer or cooler since this time yesterday.
Imagine slicing the ground open like a cake. Each colored ball is a thermometer stuck into the dirt. Blue means cold, red means hot. The ruler shows how deep each one is.
Seeds are picky! They only sprout when the dirt is warm enough. This week the soil has been about a couple of inches down.
The sun warms the top of the ground first. Then the warmth slowly sinks down, like water soaking into a sponge. The big dots show when each depth was warmest. Gray parts are nighttime.
How many degrees each depth changes from the coolest time of day to the warmest. Longer bar = bigger change. Dirt is like a blanket: the deeper you go, the less it changes.
Every little stripe is one day. Each row is one year. Can you spot summer (red) and winter (blue)? Point at or tap a stripe to see how warm the ground was. Try finding your birthday!
Dig deeper · detailed data
Hourly readings, long-term trends, comparisons with past years, and the raw data to analyze yourself.
Hourly readings. The surface swings widely between day and night while deeper soil barely moves, because soil is a poor conductor of heat. The shaded area is the forecast.
The thin line is each day's average; the thick line is the 7-day rolling average, which filters out single warm or cold days. Dashed lines mark planting thresholds.
Top layer (0–2.8″) daily average vs. the same week (±3 days) in past years.
Daily average soil temperature by depth layer. Deeper soil lags behind the seasons: it peaks later in summer and stays warmer into fall.
Each line is one year of the top layer (0–2.8″), smoothed with a 7-day average. The dashed line is the average of all past years.
50°F is a key planting threshold. Spring = first day the 7-day average of the top layer climbs to 50°F or above. Fall = first day after July it drops below.
| Year | Spring warm-up | Fall cool-down | Days at or above 50°F |
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