All plants have a self-cooling process called transpiration. It's essentially the plant version of sweating. When it's hot out, leaves release water through the pores in their leaves. That water ...

Omaha's Weather Leader is tracking extreme heat followed by strong to severe storms overnight. Meteorologist Luke Vickery has the latest in the forecast you trust.

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 ...

Cornfields contribute to increased humidity by releasing moisture as they grow, a phenomenon known as "corn sweats." ...

Overnight temperatures will provide little relief from the sweltering daytime heat, dipping only into the mid-70s.

"Corn sweat" refers to the process known as evapotranspiration. Corn plants, like other plants, absorb water through their ...

Increased temps felt all across the Corn Belt, an area touching southern Minnesota, could be because of a crop.

Right now, we’re finding ourselves in that danger category, so if you can, try to minimize the amount of time you spend ...

Minnesota and Iowa are known for their sultry summer days, with enough heat and humidity to go around. But why does it get so ...

The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory for Friday, predicting the heat index will hover around 100 degrees for ...

More than 100 million Americans are under heat alerts as the extreme temperatures that have smothered the Midwest this week ...

And although most of the country’s corn is farmed in the Midwest and Plains region, the effects of corn sweat can be felt far ...