Friday May 6 – *Soaking rain event for Midwest/Mid-Atlantic region to wreak havoc on baseball schedule*

By Meteorologist Paul Dorian | May 6, 2022

A soaking rain event is coming to the Mid-Atlantic region for today, tonight and Saturday and it’ll become quite cool and windy as well. Intensifying low pressure will cross over the Ohio Valley on Friday and then – as it arrives the eastern US – it will begin to become influenced by building high pressure […]

Friday April 22 – Cool weather dominated the weather scene resulting in a low “Home Run Forecast index”

By Meteorologist Paul Dorian | May 4, 2022

Cool Canadian high pressure dominated the weather scene on Friday night, April 22nd in the eastern half of the nation and the “Home Run Forecast Index” was low (1, 2 or 3) in the vast majority of the games.  The only game with double-digit total runs on Friday night took place in Arizona and it […]

Baseball’s Opening Day Weather and its impact on the HRF Index

By Meteorologist Paul Dorian | April 5, 2022

    Baseball’s “Opening Day” on Thursday will feature plenty of colder-than-normal air across the middle of the country and an unusual hot air mass across southern California. Map courtesy NOAA, tropicaltidbits.com   *Baseball’s “Opening Day” weather and its impact on the “Home Run Forecast Index”…the weather is not being very cooperative…already a couple of postponements* […]