Study Finds Coors Field Ranks 4th Most Lightning Prone MLB Stadium

Denver CO

01 April, 2021

4:24 PM

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By CBS Denver Staff: DENVER (CBS4) – Baseball season is in full swing and it won't be long until we're in the heart of thunderstorm season along Colorado's Front Range. A recent study by Vaisala Meteorologist Chris Vagasky looked at four years worth of data around MLB ballparks and found that Coors Field is one of the most prone to having a game interrupted by lightning. The study plotted lightning data from nearly 10,000 MLB games between 2016-2019. It accounted for all in-cloud and cloud-to-ground strikes within an 8-mile radius of each stadium and included strikes that happened up to an hour before or after each game. Read more at CBS Denver