Time series data are often contaminated with outliers due to influence of unusal and non-responsitive events. The effect of the outliers is larger in the time series analysis than in the other statistical analysis, because the time series data have dependent structure over time. This paper focuses on the effect of patchy outliers on forecasting. Especially, the increase of the mean square of the l-step-ahead forecast error is derived and used to evaluate the impact of those outliers on the forecast. We fine, in general, that this increase is rather small, provided that the patchy outliers does not occur too close to the forecast origin.