Do baseballs fly better in cold or hot weather?

Hot. I thought this was widely known

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Can you help us with our debate

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There’s no debate. It’s hot.

It is

OP is one of the worst trolls on this board

The heat makes the ball more elastic. Think of a rubber band, you can stretch it longer if its hot, thus allowing it to have more potential energy. Whereas you cant stretch a cold rubber band as much, and in turn it doesnt have as much potential energy. The potential energy is what allows it to travel further.

Here's and interesting tid bit.

A baseball will fly farther in high humidity location over a low humidity location(desert). People always say that the air feels heavier when it's muggy, but in fact it is lighter.

Reason being is that water vapor is lighter than air.

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Here's and interesting tid bit.

A baseball will fly farther in high humidity location over a low humidity location(desert). People always say that the air feels heavier when it's muggy, but in fact it is lighter.

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Link?

Here ya go, it's true - https://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints/260/

Could the reason people generally think this be because most humid climates (like louisiana) are at lower altitudes than many dryer climates (deserts sometimes being the exceptions but think Colorado) and therefore the air column will be slightly heavier?

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Reason being is that water vapor is lighter than air.

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As counter intuitive as that may seem, it is true. Evaporated H2O is a considerably lighter gas than O2, N2, or CO2, the primary components of air.

humidity is the deciding factor for a flying object, not temperature, dry less humid air give less wind resistance to objects that are in motion

the force energy that gets applied to the ball by the bat. hot weather makes the ball softer so it can absorb and then leave with more force energy and fly faster because of the higher energy applied then in cold weather

now the other side is a ball already in motion at 100 mph will travel farther in dry air then it will in humid air

Hot

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humidity is the deciding factor for a flying object, not temperature, dry less humid air give less wind resistance to objects that are in motion

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this is what I was thinking of cuz there is less humidity in cold weather