The wind is a factor in whether a fly ball should be called IFF (Evans). The sun is not (College Study Guide).
I was working bases a couple years ago on a very windy day and a ball was hit to RF. I went out thinking it was going to be a trouble ball. It landed in the infield dirt with F4 and F9 out in RF. Wind was blowing in from RF. Nothing ordinary about it. This was not an IFF situation but I looked at my partner, tipped my finger to my hat and gave a miniature safe signal and he nodded agreement, no IFF's today.
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