Beyond looking at the temperature and precipitation, the wind is also a crucial component of corn production.
The wind is the horizontal motion of air past a given point and is a direct result of pressure differences across a geographic location.
The wind is measured in two ways:
Air flows from areas of higher pressure to areas of lower pressure. The larger the difference in pressure between the two areas, or the closer the two areas of differing pressure are to one another, the stronger the wind. The wind will always blow to try to equalize these differences, so the wind blows from high to low pressure.