Corn sweat is exactly what it sounds like: moisture given off by corn. With large swaths of corn fields in the Midwest and ...

The process is known as evapotranspiration, which is how plants, including corn, release water vapor into the atmosphere.

It is “corn sweat” season. The biggest U.S. crop does influence our weather here in Michigan and across the Midwest. All ...

Corn sweat. Yes, the term for how the crop can drive up the humidity through a process called evapotranspiration is a thing.

A phenomenon called "corn sweat" could exacerbate the impacts of the extreme heat blanketing a large portion of the U.S., ...

A heat wave will hit Michigan later in the week and the state's corn fields will amplify the extreme temperatures.

July and August is a common time of the year for extreme heat and humidity. One of the contributing factors is the mature corn crop releasing moisture into the atmosphere. One acre of mature corn can ...

With this added moisture in the atmosphere, it can make an already hot day feel even hotter when you factor in the humidity.

Blame it on the corn. Sweltering temperatures in Mid-Michigan have been soaring, partly because of a new phenomenon that’s been circulating recently, sometimes called “corn sweat.” ...

Corn sweat is a very real phenomenon, and the Midwest has to deal with the excess heat during the late-summer days because of ...

It’s not that corn sweats more than other plants — an acre releases less moisture on average than, say, a large oak tree — ...

Blame it on the corn. Sweltering temperatures in Mid-Michigan have been soaring, partly because of a new phenomenon that’s been circulating recently, sometimes called “corn sweat.” ...