The first major heat wave of summer has enveloped much of the midwestern and eastern U.S. in a brutal “dome” of record temperatures and high humidity. The dome phenomenon happens when weather ...

Some hot days feel even worse thanks to high humidity, trapped heat and dew points. Cities are especially vulnerable. By Nazaneen Ghaffar Nazaneen Ghaffar is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. It ...

Drive anywhere in Ohio for around 30 minutes, and chances are you'll find yourself passing by a cornfield. In fact, there are around 3.6 million acres of the crop in the state, according to USDA data.

When it comes to Missouri summers, any lifelong resident will tell you, "It's not the heat, it's the humidity." And with multiple heat advisories issued throughout the state amid a heat dome pummeling ...

As humidity sets in across the region, raising temperatures into the 90s and even 100s across the Midwest, corn may be partly to blame for the humidity. Corn sweat describes the moisture released into ...

It's a less-than-delightful characteristic of living in a state with lots of crops: corn sweat. And it's no secret there is plenty of corn in Ohio. In fact, there are around 3.6 million acres of the ...