This Day in Weather History
"This Day In Weather History" is a daily podcast from The Weather Network that features unique and informative stories written and produced by host Chris Mei. Weather happens every day. It can be sunny, cloudy, stormy or maybe just unsettled, but it is always happening! It’s when severe weather strikes that it captures the attention of those affected…and the imagination of everyone else who follows the story. So it is with good reason to expect that after over a century of news and weather information gathering and record keeping, there would be a "special" weather or natural phenomena event to mark each day of a calendar. Do you remember the first recorded tornado in Canadian history? No, you don’t because none of us were there...so we dive into that! How about when Prince played the Super Bowl halftime show? It’s possibly the best performance ever for that event….and the backstory made it all the more special! Or how about the 25th Anniversary Woodstock Festival back in 1994? It’s all here - all year - in one podcast.... "This Day In Weather History"!
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 6 minutes
- Episodes
- 610
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
December 29 - Victoria BC: "Snowstorm of the Century"
In Victoria, Canada’s so-called ‘Snow-free city’, 65cm fell on Dec. 29th, breaking the city’s all-time 24-hour record of 55cm from 1916. As a result , widespread power outages were reported. With all…
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Thu 29 Dec 2022
December 28 - Definitely NOT the ‘Summer of 69’
This storm had it all! It had the record snow accumulations, it had the a damaging ice storm, it had the and flooding rains….and it even included a tornado outbreak!! Over the next 2 days, December 2…
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Wed 28 Dec 2022
December 27 - “Weather and Flight”: Holiday Tragedy
Bek Air Flight 2100 was a Fokker 100 domestic passenger plane on a scheduled flight from Almaty to Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, on December 27th, 2019. It took off from Almaty International Airport, but d…
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Tue 27 Dec 2022
December 26 - The Greatest Tennis Match Ever is Almost SNOWED OUT!
It was a record-breaking snowfall that began on Christmas Day and crippled the northeastern United States to a literal standstill. We had automobiles and buses banked and stranded in the streets, the…
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Mon 26 Dec 2022
December 25 - Christmas Day Special
Regardless of overall impact, anything that gets in the way or makes this day more beautiful is amplified exponentially in its scope and reverence. Today are all stories from December 25th but sailin…
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Sun 25 Dec 2022
December 24 - Christmas on the Moon with Apollo 8
This mission is also known as the trip that made possible the iconic "Earthrise" image, seen and revered still to this day the world over. It was snapped by Anders and this image would give our 3 ast…
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Sat 24 Dec 2022
December 23 - "Weather and War": The 1775 "Snow Campaign"
It was called the "snow campaign" because the soldiers and fighters had a very tough time getting anything accomplished, including not getting killed, because of a very heavy snowfall. The “Snow Camp…
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Fri 23 Dec 2022
December 22 - A Great Escape with a Monumental Discovery!
It was on a Thursday, this December 22nd, when Janssen’s story opened like a Hollywood thriller. France was in the grips of the Franco-Prussian War and our hero made a harrowing escape from a German …
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Thu 22 Dec 2022
December 21 - It Was Only The FIRST Day of Winter!
December 2008 was a particularly active month in Ontario for severe weather, to say the least...this day in weather history.
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Wed 21 Dec 2022
December 20 - Most Destructive Storm in BC Hydro History
It is still considered right now to have been the most damaging storm in B.C. Hydro’s history. At its peak, it was reported that over 750,000 customers lost power as a result of the storm. For perspe…
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Tue 20 Dec 2022
December 19 - "The Nightmare Before (During & After) Christmas"
We had: a full-on winter storm with heavy snow, strong winds, blowing and drifting and white outs. We also had a legit crippling ice storm and, just to make it almost comically impossible, this event…
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Mon 19 Dec 2022
December 18 - “Weather and War”: Killer Cobra
Typhoon Cobra was first observed on December 17 when it surprised a fleet of ships in the open waters of the western Pacific Ocean. It packed sustained winds of up to 100 mph with gusts to 140 mph. B…
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Sun 18 Dec 2022
December 17 - The FIRST Ever Flight at Kittyhawk
So it was set and the day arrived; initial flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. Three more flights were made that day with Wilbur Wright piloting the record flight lasting 59 seconds over a…
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Sat 17 Dec 2022
December 16 - The Holiday Season Tornado Terror
Most of the tornadoes were reported in Mississippi, with several striking Louisiana. The 3 fatalities happened in Louisiana and Alabama, while injuring people in several states, and damaging homes an…
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Fri 16 Dec 2022
December 15 - Weather and War: "The Battle of Fredericksburg"
We have covered a couple of Civil War stories on this podcast already. How the weather plays into war settings is incredibly intriguing; it isn't enough that all sides are told that they want to kill…
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Thu 15 Dec 2022
December 14 - The Car Ship Crash That Kept Crashing
he French authorities ordered the wreck to be removed, as it was perceived to represent a danger to shipping and the environment. Yet somehow TWO more collisions happened with MV Tricolor in the days…
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Wed 14 Dec 2022
December 13 - When Time Stopped Dead on Highway 402
In all, 600 travellers were stranded for as long as 48 hours on southwestern Ontario’s highway 402 because of the extreme winter weather conditions that moved in and over the region that day. Meanwhi…
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Tue 13 Dec 2022
December 12 - When Sports Domes Don't Work
There were indeed, historically 5 Collapses in the history of this balloon roof in Minneapolis Minnesota, home of the MLB Twins and NFL Vikings at the time.
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Mon 12 Dec 2022
December 11 - The Shocking WORST Ever Toronto Snowstorm
In all, twenty-one people died as a result of this snow storm that levelled 57 cm or "twenty-two and one-half inches" of snow on the city in a single continuous storm. 48 cm fell in one day alone!! A…
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Sun 11 Dec 2022
December 10 - Weather and War: "The Red Cross"
World War One had been raging for 3 years by 1917. During this time the Norwegian Nobel Committee held firm that NO peace prize would be awarded so long as the world was still at WAR...that would jus…
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Sat 10 Dec 2022
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