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The flurry of home runs being smashed into right field at the new Yankee stadium has got meteorologists at AccuWeather.com wondering whether the geometry of the new ballpark may be enhancing the prevailing winds in ways that are blowing the balls over the wall.
Check out this story from AccuWeather.com.
Frank Roylance is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. He came to Baltimore from New Bedford, Mass. in 1980 to join the old Evening Sun. He moved to the morning Sun when the papers merged in 1992, and has spent most of his time since covering science, including astronomy and the weather. One of The Baltimore Sun's first online Web logs, the Weather Blog debuted in October 2004. In June 2006 Frank also began writing comments on local weather and stargazing for The Baltimore Sun's print Weather Page.
Comments
With all the planning that goes into building a new stadium--especially for the New York Yankees!--don't you think they would have some way to determine how winds might affect the game? I would think this is something that could have been predicted (as much as you can) rather than a build it and then wait and see approach. I'm no architect, meteorologist or anything else that could have helped in that effort other than someone that thinks with all the money the Yankees have, they could have spent some money to study the possibilities.
Posted by: Jeff | April 20, 2009 2:47 PM
Further proof that wind studies performed in conjunction with ballpark design are utterly worthless. This wasted application of science also failed Camden Yards.
Posted by: Attila the Hon | April 20, 2009 3:00 PM