Baseball playoffs begin today in the following four cities: Cleveland, St. Louis, Toronto (retractable roof) and New York City (Mets) and the weather will be quite chilly in all locations with likely Home Run Forecast Index values on the lower side of the scale An unusually chilly air mass (shown in purple, blue on map) is dropping southeast today from Canada into the Midwest and Great Lakes regions and will filter into New York City this evening – in time for the final game of today’s four playoff games. As a result of the chill, the Home Run Forecast Index is likely to be in the 1-3 range in all locations suggesting the overall weather conditions will not be too favorable for baseballs to carry. Today’s playoff games starting times are as follows: 12:07 PM in Cleveland, 2:07 PM in St. Louis, 4:07 PM in Toronto and 8:07 PM in New York City (Mets). The cooler-than-normal conditions are very likely to continue on Saturday in all of these four locations.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian