Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Dodger Stadium will be a broil setting later today


Source:  Weather Channel (arrows added)

It could be 95 degrees — or higher — when Game 1 of the World Series starts.  (USA Today, 10/23/2017)
John Thorn, MLB's official historian, posted on Twitter that no World Series game in a non-roofed facility has been played at a temperature above 81 degrees since 1975, according to league records. He also cited a CNN reporter’s discovery of four games prior to 1975 that were played on days when the temperature eclipsed 90 degrees, including three games in Oakland in 1974 (played October 15-17) and a fourth in St. Louis in 1944 (series played October 4-9).

It's predicted to be slightly cooler at the start of Wednesday's game 2:  91 degrees.

Related reading:
Record heat, lightning, fires, intense rain: California's extreme weather gets wilder.  (Los Angeles Times, 9/1/2017)
California Today: Is This What Climate Change Looks Like?  (The New York Times, 9/5/2017)
To guard against climate change, Los Angeles is painting its streets white.  (Popular Science, 9/6/2017)

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