This week's heat wave has brought excessive heat warnings, heat advisories and even school cancellations across Wisconsin and the upper Midwest. This intense heat was largely caused by an upper ridge ...

Triple digit heat blankets the Southwest this week, and forecasters expect the ridge of high pressure to park over the western Corn Belt next week. AccuWeather forecasters project U.S. corn production ...

FROM METHODIST HOSPITAL. SO GREEN OUT THERE. WELL, DANGEROUS TEMPERATURES ACROSS NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA ARE PUTTING MILLIONS OF PEOPLE UNDER A HEAT ADVISORY. THE HIGH HUMIDITY HAS MANY ONLINE ...

One of Ohio’s most popular crops is intensifying humidity and heat in Greater Cincinnati this week. That’s due to a phenomenon called “corn sweat,” also known as evapotranspiration. Like all plants, ...

Much of the Midwest, including Franklin County, is under a heat advisory this week and one phenomenon that may be contributing to how humid it is outside is corn and the water it sweats off while ...

Here’s a rather unappetizing weather-related phrase that is suddenly circulating on social media, driven, in part, by news media reports aimed at finding creative ways to keep you reading and tell you ...

The Midwest is bracing for a brutal heat wave this week, and millions of acres of corn crops are about to make it feel even worse. As temperatures soar across the region, a natural process called ...

The heat wave baking the central United States this week may feel worse than those earlier in the summer, and corn is partly to blame. The claim may sound unusual, but this common crop can actually ...

All of northern Illinois will be under an excessive heat warning on Tuesday, but a phenomenon known as “corn sweat” will make the conditions especially oppressive in areas away from the city of ...

July has already been more humid than average, and now another, less obvious factor will enhance humidity this week: corn sweat. Like a person breathing, corn exhales water vapor through its leaves — ...

MID-MICHIGAN (WJRT) - Experts explain that corn fields can contribute to humidity as the plants release moisture to stay cool. Jeff Knickerbocker, owner of Knickerbocker Farms, said, "Heat is great as ...