WGN's Bill Snyder Explains: Corn Sweat and Its Impact on Humidity

WGN's Bill Snyder explains: Corn sweat and its impact on humidity

WGN-TV weather producer Bill Snyder joins WGN Radio's John Landecker to talk about the storms we saw Thursday and if there are any more on the way. Then Bill talks about the humidity and explains what corn sweat is and how it affects humidity.

‘Corn Sweat’: How much does it actually affect humidity levels?

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE)-- The phrase, “corn sweat” has made headlines across the country this month, coinciding with the dog days of summer. But what is corn sweat and is it different from any other plants’ “sweat”? Another word for corn sweat is evapotranspiration (ET). ET happens in most plants, not just corn. “We're all familiar with precipitation, which is rain falling from the sky,” Kyle Brown, a meteorologist at the National Weather Servic…

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In the Midwest, they call it “corn sweat”—a term used to describe the extra humidity that builds during hot summer days as crops release moisture into the air.