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DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) -- Most of the humidity that you consciousness successful the summertime comes from the Gulf of Mexico, but not each of it.
Deep successful the bosom of the maize belt, Ohio is simply a large shaper of corn, and it provides much than conscionable a large broadside astatine a barbeque. Corn gives disconnected a monolithic magnitude of h2o -- up to 4,000 gallons a time per acre -- into the atmosphere, and tin marque a hot, humid time consciousness adjacent soupier.
"Corn tin summation the moisture contented and humidity, particularly successful the little ambiance this clip of twelvemonth due to the fact that the maize is really retired and growing," said Campbell.
The process successful which the moisture is released from the plant’s leaves is known arsenic evapotranspiration.
"Extracting h2o retired of the ungraded with its roots and having that h2o determination up done the vascular strategy of the roots into the trunk oregon stem, if it's a herbaceous works to the leaves wherever it volition yet mostly permission the works arsenic h2o vapor," said Dr. Don Cipollini, prof of biology astatine Wright State University.
Peaking successful July and August erstwhile maize is astatine its tallest, the moisture that is fixed disconnected tin scope areas further away, but is mostly astir pronounced wherever the maize is located.
"Plants lend importantly to the section humidity conditions successful that area," Cipollini said. "If you instrumentality an acre of onshore with nary plants connected it versus an acre of onshore with maize connected it, you're going to get a batch much humidity suspended implicit that maize harvest than the ungraded itself."
