AYM with Jacob Dickey | Corn Sweat | ciLiving

We're here now in the weather center with meteorologist Jacob Dickey. Okay, Jacob, have you heard of the meat sweats? Like, where you so much meat? Like when you go to those places where they, like, chop it off onto your plate and use the meat? No. I mean, is it similar? The corn sweats? Yes. Right. It's once you get too hot. Have you seen the corn pop before? No. Get the popcorn in the car. That's not just a cartoon. No it's not. I'm just teasing it here, a turd. Can you say that on TV? I just did, I just did, did me? Yeah, yeah. So corn sweats. Got it. A big word that it's been humid out there, right? Totally. My hair is not loving it. I can tell again I can't. All right, all right. Let's get to the questions here. Yes. Question number one. It has been pretty humid this week. You've been talking about corn sweat on TV. Can you tell us more about how that plays a role in things? Yeah. So first off I think folks are like corn sweat. Is this something new? This is something that happens all the time. It's evapotranspiration, which is the scientific term. Basically it just means plants release water. And that happens all the time, happens with the corn, happens with your trees in your yard, the grass, all of that. But corn in particular this time of year is really efficient at it. These are some of the dew points for Tuesday afternoon. All those pinks in there. There's a lot of corn grown in Illinois, and with a weather pattern that helps to hold that air in place, you just add humidity to that and get the corn spread, as they call it. It's just all that humidity that is in the air. I don't think he actually see water. You not see the corn sweating as kernels don't pop out of there. But, certainly it is humid when you get those dew points this time of year. This is more what it looks like. You see a corn field. Nice. Beautiful day. There's some corn there. But here's the secret that's going on. All of that corn, in fact, an acre of corn is releasing 3 to 4000 gallons of water every day. There are 12 million acres of corn in the state of Illinois. Do some math. There 48 billion gallons of water. Up to that many billion gallons of water a day are being released by Illinois corn. And we're surrounded by corn here. To give you an idea, the Olympics are just here. That's the equivalent of 72,727 Olympic sized swimming pools of water a day being released into the air. All of that moisture this time of year, the corn is simply evaporating it away. And it is, perhaps, you know, putting it into the air. It's a process. It happens. But the genetics, the corn, plants these days are really efficient at that. They do a lot better job than, say, even 50 years ago when genetics was, underrated in that corn sweat certainly is something that, is real. But it's not this hype this term. We just call it corn because the corn is released in water. It sounds kind of cool. Yeah, and we sweat it. Yeah, it's just cool. I mean, it sounds hot. It does. I'm always shocked at how much water our humidifier back in the office, pulls out of the air every day. Yeah, even an even an hour. Same thing. We're emptying that thing a couple times a day. Okay. Next question. The forecast called for a hyper active hurricane season, but so far, I haven't heard of a lot of activity. How are things looking? Yeah. So we got a list of names for you just to go through. We're only through the EA name at this point. Ernie Esto here. And so that's the list. We've had five storms so far which a little unusual. We thought it'd be a little faster active here. But the one thing that's been standing out is we got a lot of, I call it jet fuel in the ocean, not actual jet fuel, but those waters are warm. And hurricanes love warm water. So when we finally get a pattern in the atmosphere that is supportive of that, the thinking processes, things will turn active pretty quickly. Here. You see, in water temperatures in the mid upper 80s, that's warm. You go down in Miami, you go down to the Gulf Coast, hit the beaches. It is some warm water that is there and that's all over the area. So a lot of energy is stored in the water. Some signs of some activity may be picking up. Now. The National Hurricane Center is suggesting there are low probabilities for some development over the next seven days out in the open waters of the Atlantic. And once you flip the switch on, I think things will eventually start to get active. We're not even halfway through the hurricane season yet, though. Today being late August, when you look at the numbers here, we're up here. The uphill climb certainly is happening in the month of August, but our busiest month, just from a climatological standpoint, busiest month on average is September for hurricanes. And so that is something that we will look for and see if perhaps things pick up. I don't think we're done by a long shot. Oh, okay. I should say we were in Panama City with Hurricane Debbie and Leslie. We missed it. It was beautiful every day. So I'm still super thankful. But, we're also thankful for hanging out with you here. Great. Are you. Are you. Even if you are a little turd bird, you want to ask jellyfish session for next weeks? Ask your meteorologist. There is how you can connect with him, and we'll look forward to being with him again next week.