COLUMBIA, S.C. — Tuesday was a beautiful, sunny day for a ball game over at Segra Park in Columbia, and some lucky kids also got to learn how weather works from the experts.
Thousands of kids filled Segra Park to hear from the News19 weather team, including Daniel Bonds, South Carolina's weather man Jim Gandy, who’s recently been filling in for Chief Meteorologist Efren Afante, Erin Walker and Walker Lawson.
“I learned about heat lightning, which is something, I've grown up in the South so I’ve always wondered what exactly is heat lightning, and Mr. Gandy, I watched him as a child and he finally was able to answer my question,” said Camden Elementary School teacher Jennifer Burch.
It was a chance to educate young minds about the science behind weather so WLTX teamed up with Edventure Children's Museum to bring a lesson to a fun place, the baseball field.
Among the lessons taught by the WLTX weather team was how hot and humid weather can lead to more home runs, as the ball can travel further in hot & humid conditions since the air is less dense.
“We had our anemometer out there going off the wind, the radiometer going off of the sunlight and the heat, and then we talked a little bit about air pressure," said Nasiya Strout with Edventure.
“I learned lightning does not actually strike in the same place at once” added student Olivia Frazier.
To top it off the Fireflies won 8-0 against Augusta Greenjackets.