Yes, Corn Sweat exists! And it happens all the time

In our third episode, we talked about "Corn Sweat." We learned how it can make Midwest summers more uncomfortable, and sometimes more dangerous. The co-hosts are Maddie Stover, a doctoral student in Physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Steve Nesbitt, professor of Climate, Meteorology, and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Andrew Pritchard, meteorologist for Nutrien Agriculture Solutions and Illinois Public Media. They talked with Carl Bernacchi, professor in crop sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Carl is an expert on impacts of atmospheric and climatic change on crop species important to the Midwest.

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