The authors present a technical note on the evaluation of a soil moisture forecast method. The note is well written and concise. However, as expressed by the two reviewers, some improvements can be made. I am glad to see that the authors agree on most of these comments. Additional to the comments of the reviewers, I think the paper can also be improved by emphasising what is new in their approach. How does this method differ from the existing ones? Related to this, the method section should contain more information (what do the different components in figure 1 do and how do they work?)

Lastly, the technical note has no conclusions which should be added.

Please add (as requested before) a conclusion section.

Please split the discussion & conclusion section into a discussion section and a conclusion section.