Evidently this swampmoding swelter is a byproduct of late-Summer corn perspiration or ‘corn sweat’. All I know is the air hurts and I don’t have no A/C. Time to see what slop they’re slinging at the cinema!

E: update I went to play cards at an air conditioned bar with my friends and now I got two box fans pointed at me.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I thought corn sweat was just a jokey phrase but when I googled - I learned that steamy crops actually increase the humidity.

    “Corn Sweat” and Climate Change Bring Sweltering Weather to the Midwest | Scientific American

    The heat is accompanied by humidity from two sources: moist air that is streaming up from the Gulf of Mexico and a phenomenon that is sometimes called “corn sweat.” The latter happens when corn, soybeans and other crops release moisture as the temperature climbs. This process, known technically as evapotranspiration, is akin to how humans perspire in the heat. Steamy contributions from those crops mean “we can see some of our higher moisture values of the year at this time of year,” Taylor says.

    • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      I sorta felt this when I lived in Japan going from a sorta urban environment to a farm and back on my commute home and going on the roads that had the plants right next to it was obviously more humid on those really warm days.