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

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

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

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.

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

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

While most of our humidity comes from the Gulf, corn and other plants add even more water vapor in the air this time of year- ...

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

The process coined the term “sweat” because it’s similar to how we, as humans, perspire in the heat. One acre of corn can release about 4,000 gallons of moisture into the air.

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.” ...

Just try not to think too much about corn sweat the next time you butter up a cob. Contact Frank Witsil: 313-222-5022 or fwitsil@freepress.com.