Calibrating my new Zigbee soil moisture sensor.
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Live weather for #Yeovil on 11th Oct 2026 at 12.00 Temp: 15.0 C Humidity: 78% Pressure: 1012.4 mbar (Steady) Wind speed: 0.0 mph (ave), 0.0 mph (gust) Rain Total: 0.0 mm Rain Rate: 0.0 mm/hr Solar Radiation: 40 W/m UV: 1.8 Soil Moisture: 31% CO2: 698 ppm
La ciencia del suelo también tiene sus debates, aciertos y errores. De Eaton y Beck a Boussingault, un recorrido por las ideas que ayudaron a comprender qué hace del suelo mucho más que roca fragmentada. #soilscience
Live weather for #Yeovil on 11th Oct 2026 at 11.00 Temp: 15.0 C Humidity: 79% Pressure: 1012.8 mbar (Steady) Wind speed: 0.0 mph (ave), 0.0 mph (gust) Rain Total: 0.0 mm Rain Rate: 0.0 mm/hr Solar Radiation: 52 W/m UV: 2.2 Soil Moisture: 32% CO2: 565 ppm
Live weather for #Yeovil on 11th Oct 2026 at 10.00 Temp: 12.4 C Humidity: 87% Pressure: 1012.6 mbar (Steady) Wind speed: 0.0 mph (ave), 0.0 mph (gust) Rain Total: 0.0 mm Rain Rate: 0.0 mm/hr Solar Radiation: 18 W/m UV: 0.4 Soil Moisture: 32% CO2: 526 ppm
Live weather for #Yeovil on 11th Oct 2026 at 09.00 Temp: 11.4 C Humidity: 90% Pressure: 1012.5 mbar (Steady) Wind speed: 0.0 mph (ave), 0.0 mph (gust) Rain Total: 0.0 mm Rain Rate: 0.0 mm/hr Solar Radiation: 10 W/m UV: 0.0 Soil Moisture: 32% CO2: 547 ppm
Live weather for #Yeovil on 11th Oct 2026 at 08.00 Temp: 10.3 C Humidity: 92% Pressure: 1012.4 mbar (Steady) Wind speed: 0.0 mph (ave), 0.0 mph (gust) Rain Total: 0.0 mm Rain Rate: 0.0 mm/hr Solar Radiation: 2 W/m UV: 0.0 Soil Moisture: 32% CO2: 581 ppm
Live weather for #Yeovil on 11th Oct 2026 at 07.00 Temp: 10.3 C Humidity: 92% Pressure: 1012.2 mbar (Steady) Wind speed: 0.0 mph (ave), 0.0 mph (gust) Rain Total: 0.0 mm Rain Rate: 0.0 mm/hr Solar Radiation: 0 W/m UV: 0.0 Soil Moisture: 32% CO2: 510 ppm
Live weather for #Yeovil on 11th Oct 2026 at 06.00 Temp: 10.6 C Humidity: 91% Pressure: 1012.4 mbar (Steady) Wind speed: 0.0 mph (ave), 0.0 mph (gust) Rain Total: 0.0 mm Rain Rate: 0.0 mm/hr Solar Radiation: 0 W/m UV: 0.0 Soil Moisture: 32% CO2: 505 ppm
Live weather for #Yeovil on 11th Oct 2026 at 05.00 Temp: 10.8 C Humidity: 90% Pressure: 1012.3 mbar (Falling Slowly) Wind speed: 0.0 mph (ave), 0.0 mph (gust) Rain Total: 0.0 mm Rain Rate: 0.0 mm/hr Solar Radiation: 0 W/m UV: 0.0 Soil Moisture: 32% CO2: 501 ppm
Live weather for #Yeovil on 11th Oct 2026 at 04.00 Temp: 11.0 C Humidity: 89% Pressure: 1012.6 mbar (Falling Slowly) Wind speed: 0.0 mph (ave), 0.0 mph (gust) Rain Total: 0.0 mm Rain Rate: 0.0 mm/hr Solar Radiation: 0 W/m UV: 0.0 Soil Moisture: 32% CO2: 503 ppm
Live weather for #Yeovil on 11th Oct 2026 at 03.00 Temp: 10.8 C Humidity: 89% Pressure: 1013.0 mbar (Steady) Wind speed: 0.0 mph (ave), 0.0 mph (gust) Rain Total: 0.0 mm Rain Rate: 0.0 mm/hr Solar Radiation: 0 W/m UV: 0.0 Soil Moisture: 32% CO2: 506 ppm
Live weather for #Yeovil on 11th Oct 2026 at 02.00 Temp: 11.1 C Humidity: 86% Pressure: 1013.2 mbar (Steady) Wind speed: 0.0 mph (ave), 0.0 mph (gust) Rain Total: 0.0 mm Rain Rate: 0.0 mm/hr Solar Radiation: 0 W/m UV: 0.0 Soil Moisture: 32% CO2: 573 ppm
Live weather for #Yeovil on 11th Oct 2026 at 01.00 Temp: 10.8 C Humidity: 87% Pressure: 1013.4 mbar (Steady) Wind speed: 0.0 mph (ave), 0.0 mph (gust) Rain Total: 0.0 mm Rain Rate: 0.0 mm/hr Solar Radiation: 0 W/m UV: 0.0 Soil Moisture: 32% CO2: 557 ppm
Live weather for #Yeovil on 11th Oct 2026 at 00.00 Temp: 10.7 C Humidity: 87% Pressure: 1013.6 mbar (Steady) Wind speed: 0.0 mph (ave), 0.0 mph (gust) Rain Total: 0.3 mm Rain Rate: 0.0 mm/hr Solar Radiation: 0 W/m UV: 0.0 Soil Moisture: 32% CO2: 582 ppm
Live weather for #Yeovil on 10th Oct 2026 at 23.00 Temp: 10.7 C Humidity: 85% Pressure: 1013.8 mbar (Steady) Wind speed: 0.0 mph (ave), 0.0 mph (gust) Rain Total: 0.3 mm Rain Rate: 0.0 mm/hr Solar Radiation: 0 W/m UV: 0.0 Soil Moisture: 32% CO2: 617 ppm
Live weather for #Yeovil on 10th Oct 2026 at 22.00 Temp: 11.4 C Humidity: 81% Pressure: 1013.9 mbar (Steady) Wind speed: 0.0 mph (ave), 0.0 mph (gust) Rain Total: 0.3 mm Rain Rate: 0.0 mm/hr Solar Radiation: 0 W/m UV: 0.0 Soil Moisture: 32% CO2: 668 ppm
Live weather for #Yeovil on 10th Oct 2026 at 21.00 Temp: 11.3 C Humidity: 80% Pressure: 1014.0 mbar (Steady) Wind speed: 0.0 mph (ave), 0.0 mph (gust) Rain Total: 0.3 mm Rain Rate: 0.0 mm/hr Solar Radiation: 0 W/m UV: 0.0 Soil Moisture: 33% CO2: 623 ppm
Live weather for #Yeovil on 10th Oct 2026 at 20.00 Temp: 11.6 C Humidity: 78% Pressure: 1014.1 mbar (Steady) Wind speed: 0.0 mph (ave), 0.0 mph (gust) Rain Total: 0.3 mm Rain Rate: 0.0 mm/hr Solar Radiation: 0 W/m UV: 0.0 Soil Moisture: 33% CO2: 635 ppm
Live weather for #Yeovil on 10th Oct 2026 at 19.00 Temp: 12.2 C Humidity: 74% Pressure: 1014.3 mbar (Steady) Wind speed: 0.0 mph (ave), 0.0 mph (gust) Rain Total: 0.3 mm Rain Rate: 0.0 mm/hr Solar Radiation: 0 W/m UV: 0.0 Soil Moisture: 33% CO2: 834 ppm
Live weather for #Yeovil on 10th Oct 2026 at 18.00 Temp: 12.9 C Humidity: 71% Pressure: 1014.0 mbar (Steady) Wind speed: 0.1 mph (ave), 6.1 mph (gust) WNW Rain Total: 0.3 mm Rain Rate: 0.0 mm/hr Solar Radiation: 3 W/m UV: 0.0 Soil Moisture: 33% CO2: 618 ppm
For something a little different, in this month's newsletter rather than a critter we had a fungus. This is the holly parachute, Marasmius hudsonii, a latent saprotroph found along the route we took for our fungal foray at the Soil Ecology in Practice conference. Photo credit: Louis Mielke.
Live weather for #Yeovil on 10th Oct 2026 at 17.00 Temp: 13.8 C Humidity: 71% Pressure: 1014.1 mbar (Steady) Wind speed: 1.5 mph (ave), 6.1 mph (gust) W Rain Total: 0.3 mm Rain Rate: 0.0 mm/hr Solar Radiation: 7 W/m UV: 0.0 Soil Moisture: 33% CO2: 573 ppm