What's the temperature where you are???

[Nym]

I know I shouldn’t chuckle at that but I have had to rescue my tumbleweeds from time to time…. Poor pookies!

I need to see this silkie tumbleweed phenomenon .. it sounds quite funny to witness, as long as they don't get hurt

 

[Nym]

Tuesday 28th of January 9.08a.m. Sunny, hot & windy - perfect new moon weather for this area. The cicadas were very loud at 4a.m. 38.9kph ENE, Hg 41%, 31.7C / 89.1F top of 35C / 95F - the kids will all be happy; school goes back this week just in time for summer to arrive. Marine wind warning. Severe weather - Southerly change this evening.

Moon is 3.1%

 

[Debbie292d]

That is very interesting ..humidity in winter, I imagine winter to be cold cold, I have not experience humidity in winter. Our winter here is cold air, no snow so it is not that cold compare to your snowy winter.
I am trying to imagine humidity with cold air.....nope, not seeing or feeling it.

That is to show the world is big, what looks like something it might be different when one is living in it and experiencing moment by moment of the many differences.

It's always confused me too. I don't get it how it has recently been -30F, yet humidity was 65-80% most of those days.

Right now, it's 29F, gusts 33 mph, and humidity is 71%.

So I finally looked up why. It's a phenomenon called "corn sweat." Apparently, the abundance of corn grown here, plus other crops, is a big reason. The proximity of the Great Lakes is a contributing factor too. Lake Michigan is closest at 45 miles.

Thanks for raising the question as it always made me wonder too but I just never looked it up!

 

[Nym]

It's always confused me too. I don't get it how it has recently been -30F, yet humidity was 65-80% most of those days.

Right now, it's 29F, gusts 33 mph, and humidity is 71%.

So I finally looked up why. It's a phenomenon called "corn sweat." Apparently, the abundance of corn grown here, plus other crops, is a big reason. The proximity of the Great Lakes is a contributing factor too. Lake Michigan is closest at 45 miles.

Thanks for raising the question as it always made me wonder too but I just never looked it up!

I also looked it up, and like the corn sweat rule better!

A drop in temperature squeezes the air molecules close together and squeezes out the water which makes rain or snow. Humanity affects snow in an interesting way because according to the temperature and pressure different snow shapes are formed. At low temperatures dendrites and sector plates are formed and at higher temperatures hollow columns, needles and thin plates are formed.

Humidity not only affects snow formation but it also affects how and when snow melts. When the air is humid it is easier to transfer heat to ice from the air. Since the pressure is constant when snow is on the ground, the temperature of melting ice is at a fixed level according to Gibbs phase rule. If the air is more humid then more heat is being transferred to ice from the air and the snow melts. Humidity is affected by temperature and pressure and according to these three factors precipitation can be altered into different phases. In relation to snow, when the humidity is high pressure is high and temperature is low snow is formed. When the humidity is high, pressure is constant and temperature is high the snow melts.

Penn. State Uni. for more of that! lol

 

[SkyAJK]

The thing mother nature do!! "corn sweat" Amazing!!!

My next through is... growing corn in winter? Many other crops will do the corn sweat too. Nature is doing many amazing things!

I sometimes in awe with the many things that nature does. For example how does the baby knows to turn it head toward the exist at near birth? And then milk when the baby comes out. The body is also a work of nature.

Thank you for looking it up, I learn something new today.

 

[Debbie292d]

Thank you for looking it up, I learn something new today.

A lot of us did. I've lived some 60 years in the Midwest and never remember hearing about corn sweat!

It must continue to give off moisture even in its harvested or dead state. There's a field of it across the road they never harvested. Most do. I presume it's harvested in spring for silage.

 

[SkyAJK]

A lot of us did. I've lived some 60 years in the Midwest and never remember hearing about corn sweat!

It must continue to give off moisture even in its harvested or dead state. There's a field of it across the road they never harvested. Most do. I presume it's harvested in spring for silage.

I can imagine that, the top of the corn plant might look dead, but it is still alive underground and doing its thing. The wonder of nature.
Now I remember corn sweat.

 

[MROO]

That is pretty sad, but I thought of something funny it sure Sounds like mobile is become immobile

OgMaGosh! I am SO stealing this line. I have friends "down there" who will both groan and rant about it ... all at the same time!

 

[MROO]

A lot of us did. I've lived some 60 years in the Midwest and never remember hearing about corn sweat!

It must continue to give off moisture even in its harvested or dead state. There's a field of it across the road they never harvested. Most do. I presume it's harvested in spring for silage.

Don't be surprised if that field gets totally plowed under in the spring. Silage is usually harvested before the dead of winter. My BIL farmer monitors the moisture to get the best yield. Too early and the silage rots. Too late and it won't ferment and molds. If it's left all winter, there's no nutrition in it. My guess is that something sidetracked your neighbor's harvest - weather, illness, equipment or crop failure.
Then again, maybe it was a (very expensive) way to encourage deer and turkeys. If that's what's up, then I'm betting your neighbor and their friends/families all have full freezers!

 

[Debbie292d]

Don't be surprised if that field gets totally plowed under in the spring. Silage is usually harvested before the dead of winter. My BIL farmer monitors the moisture to get the best yield. Too early and the silage rots. Too late and it won't ferment and molds. If it's left all winter, there's no nutrition in it. My guess is that something sidetracked your neighbor's harvest - weather, illness, equipment or crop failure.
Then again, maybe it was a (very expensive) way to encourage deer and turkeys. If that's what's up, then I'm betting your neighbor and their friends/families all have full freezers!

It's sharecropped, so my neighbor doesn't know what the heck that dude is doing, ever.

We've watched him so many times let his hayfields sit dried out for weeks, then the day it rains, down the road he comes with his mower. Then we know you let that dry before you bale it. Nope, it lays there dried for weeks, until the day it rains, and then down the road he comes with his baler. Most have heard how wet hay can start fires, but I saw it in action.

He gives my neighbor some of the big round bails for her horses and donkeys in exchange for the rest he keeps. One day last fall, she texted us 911, and we ran over to see her coming out of her barn with a smoking round bale on a forklift. We helped her haul the rest of them far from the barn. She bought new hay for her animals and left those bails out there to this day. I thought she could use it for bedding, but I don't know what she'll do.