'Corn sweat' and why it's heaping on the humidity

ILLINOIS (WGN) — Regions blessed by large swaths of farmland can also be cursed with seasonal spikes in humidity thanks to "corn sweat."As corn and other crops grow, they give off moisture through their leaves. This happens throughout the growing season but reaches its peak as crops mature.
According to the U.S. National Weather Service Central Illinois, the scientific term for the release of moisture is evapotranspiration. This is the combined process by which water is transferred from th