Scott Sabol's World of Weather

Have the changes in baseball over the last 10-15 years created more offense?
Players are more productive if they swing at the first pitch. After a drop off in the early 2010s and a brief rise through 2019, first swing slugging is at mid 1990s levels.
The difference between first pitch slugging and taking first pitch slugging began to widen in the 2000s. A sign that if you are more aggressive first pitch, more good things happen....

Baseball has gone through changes over the last generation.  The increase in data availability gives us insight on some of these changes. Below is a multitude of charts attempting to illustrate these changes. All data from Baseball-reference and Fangraphs...

Winter technically didn't begin until December 21.  Yet the winter cold and snow started long before the solstice as it usually does.  This year has a bit different as it was continuously cold for longer (Thanksgiving to December 15) than in any early...

I remember Christmas of 1982 fondly. Warmest ever in northern Ohio!
It's been a few years since I updated the Christmas Weather History Chart. Hard to believe it's been 6 years since we had significant snow on Christmas Eve/Christmas Day.
How often do we see snow on Christmas?  Here is the breakdown:...