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
July 2, 2022 - "It Be Rainin' Gators"!!
On July 2, 1843, a powerful storm brought more than just gusty winds and heavy rainfall to Charleston, South Carolina…..and an alligator, this day in weather history.
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Sat 02 Jul 2022
July 1, 2022 - "Weather In War": Gettysburg
On July 1st, 1863, one of the largest military conflicts in North American history started when Union and Confederate forces collided at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The epic battle lasted three days an…
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Fri 01 Jul 2022
June 30, 2022 - Western Mexico City Buried in ICE?!
When we think of Guadalajara Mexico we think ice in margaritas in a rustic cantina with tacos and a mariachi band playing nearby. What we don’t normally think about is the whole city buried in ice. I…
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Thu 30 Jun 2022
June 29, 2022 - Thomas Jefferson: 3rd U.S. President, 1st U.S. Weather Nerd
And I thought that I was a weather nerd….For the 3rd sitting President of the United States, The weather held a curious fascination for one Tomas Jefferson as he made regular weather observations in …
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Wed 29 Jun 2022
June 28, 2022 - TWO L.A. Earthquakes in ONE Day!
California knows earthquakes. The sunshine coast has nearly been destroyed or erased altogether a few times by quakes over the centuries. But with all that history, did you know that two of the stron…
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Tue 28 Jun 2022
June 27, 2022 - Michael Phelps "Meets His Match"
Michael Phelps won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games. At those games, he would break fellow American swimming legend Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven first-place finishes at any single Oly…
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Mon 27 Jun 2022
June 26, 2022 - Lightning vs. Freighter (filled with dynamite!)
The John B. King drillship, a 43-metre long wooden boat, was the largest drill boat in Canada at the time. She had finished drilling the holes and was being led by the charged dynamite detonation wir…
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Sun 26 Jun 2022
June 25, 2022 - Man Struck by Lightning for the 7th Time!
We’ve heard them all before, Lightning never strikes the same place twice, your odds of getting by lightning are impossible, get struck by lightning and you get super powers like Shazaam! What happen…
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Sat 25 Jun 2022
June 24, 2022 - Glastonbury Festival Freak Flood
Today is the time that the rain at a Glastonbury Festival that even had the most ardent of revellers thinking….ok maybe this is too much now...on This Day in Weather History!!
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Fri 24 Jun 2022
June 23, 2022 - THE Midland Ontario Twister
I was on The Weather Network tracking every movement of this storm system and broadcasting the events LIVE...all while on my cell making sure my cousin and his family were alright. On June 23, 2010, …
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Thu 23 Jun 2022
June 22, 2022 - Canada's ONLY F5 Tornado
The Elie, Manitoba tornado was an F5 tornado that struck the town of Elie, in the province of Manitoba 40 kilometres west of Winnipeg. It became the FIRST and ONLY of it's kind in Canada's history, t…
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Wed 22 Jun 2022
June 21, 2022 - When BC Was On Fire
The Comstock Lake fire was discovered on June 21, 2018 and was caused by lightning.By the end of June, 2018, there had been more than 560 wildfires in British Columbia. This day in weather history.
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Tue 21 Jun 2022
June 20, 2022 - The 1959 Escuminac Disaster
It is still to this day considered the worst fishing-related disaster in New Brunswick in over 100 years. Of course I am referring to the 1959 Escuminac disaster. On the 19th, it is estimated the sto…
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Mon 20 Jun 2022
June 19, 2022 - That Time Calgary was UNDER Water!
During the spring of 2013, southern Alberta was hit with one of Canada’s most expensive natural disasters, destroying communities from Banff to Calgary and beyond. It was the worst flooding to hit th…
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Sun 19 Jun 2022
June 18, 2022 - Hurricane Agnes 1972
Something seemed “off” as early as June 11th….Banded convection was first noticed in the northwest Caribbean Sea when a polar front dropped into the region from the northwest kicking things into acti…
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Sat 18 Jun 2022
June 17, 2022 - The 1946 Killer Windsor Tornado
It was the 1946 Tecumseh Tornado...the most powerful ever to hit the Windsor area and still ranks within the top 3 Tornadoes ever to hit in Canada, this day in weather history!
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Fri 17 Jun 2022
June 16, 2022 - The Tropical Storm That Hit Like A Hurricane
On the June 5th episode of this podcast I presented to you a story about a tropical storm that never reached hurricane status yet still had its name retired. Today is a storm that struck a similar no…
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Thu 16 Jun 2022
June 15, 2022 - The "Bizarro World" Tornado
Tornadoes are micro-scale areas of rapidly dropping pressure. When this happens it is a mind-bending counter clockwise draw of air. COUNTER clockwise! Always COUNTER clockwise!....except for that tim…
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Wed 15 Jun 2022
June 14, 2022 - The 1892 Killer Quebec Twister
Generally speaking, when you mention tornadoes in Canada, we normally do not think of ...well..Canada. We immediately think “Tornado Alley USA”! So when what happened back in 1892 happened and it was…
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Tue 14 Jun 2022
June 13, 2022 - Billion $ Hailstorm in Calgary
6-million dollars can’t even clean up a medium impact natural disaster these days. Especially if it wipes through a major metro like Calgary Alberta. One did in 2020….and it cost a metric ton...this …
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Mon 13 Jun 2022
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