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
March 24 - Astronaut Shannon Lucid Record Breaker and Hero
March 24th, 1996, U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid transferred to the Russian space station Mir from the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for a planned five-month stay. Lucid was the first female U.S. astrona…
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Thu 24 Mar 2022
March 23 - The 1995 $4 Billion Dollar Flood in California March 23 -
They used to talk about the legendary 1862 flood of the Salinas River. But that legend was replaced when in this storm, the river exceeded its previous measured record crest by more than four feet or…
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Wed 23 Mar 2022
March 22 - The 2014 Washington Mudslide that Killed 43
Prior to this tragic day, there had been weeks of heavy rain. But what no one could have predicted was that a massive, fast-moving wall of mud and debris would suddenly come crashing down the hillsid…
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Tue 22 Mar 2022
March 21 - When 2/3 of North America Suddenly Went "Summer"
A well respected climatologist out of the United States called this March 2012 heatwave (quote) “the most extraordinary temperature anomaly in North American history”; this heat dome covered 2-thirds…
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Mon 21 Mar 2022
March 20 - One of the Worst Colorado Blizzards Since 1872
The Denver International Airport was closed and that stranded about 4,000 travellers. The weight of the snow caused a 40-foot or 12 meter gash in a portion of the roof, forcing the evacuation of tha…
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Sun 20 Mar 2022
March 19 - BC Burns Through Over 100 Temperature Records in 4 DAYS!
In BC in 2019, things were already wrecked; January was well above seasonal, February then went brutally cold and as for March, it was threatening to rewrite the record books for drought. One of the…
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Sat 19 Mar 2022
March 18 - 1925: THE Worst Tornado in US History
This outbreak killed 695 people, injured some 13,000 people, and caused $17 million in property damage. More than 500 of the total 695 people who perished were killed in southern Illinois, including…
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Fri 18 Mar 2022
March 17 - St. Patrick's Day + Tornado Warnings + Hawaii = ?!?
Two things you normally do not associate with the Aloha State are tornadoes and St. Patrick’s day. But Two tornado warnings were issued in the Hawaiian Islands on this day. So this occurrence of 2 t…
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Thu 17 Mar 2022
March 16 - Earliest Ontario Tornado on Record
Almost to the day, back in 1948 was the previous mark for the earliest tornado in the province. It was on a march 19th in Windsor. So it took 68 years for this record mark to come off the board. T…
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Wed 16 Mar 2022
March 15 - An 11-Month Flood Warning in "Mizzou"
This historic flooding was one of the costliest U.S. inland flooding events on record and it included and Air Force Base in Nebraska. In the end, this 2 week deluge of disaster caused $2.9 billion i…
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Tue 15 Mar 2022
March 14 - The 2008 Georgia Dome Tornado
The National Weather Service had issued a tornado warning for the Atlanta area at 9:26 p.m. that night after radar showed the signatures of a storm capable of producing tornadoes. And this was regis…
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Mon 14 Mar 2022
March 13 - The Wickedness of Winter Storm 'Ulmer"
The wind was a total erasing of the previous mark; in this storm a gust of 80 mph ( almost 130kph) was measured around noon mountain time on the 13th while heavy snow was falling. The deepest Low pre…
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Sun 13 Mar 2022
March 12 - Kid Gamer Gets Pinned Under Fallen Tree
As a result of this storm and its powerful wind, 10-year-old Vancouver Island boy, Laken Platt, was lucky to be alive after he became trapped beneath a tree that fell onto his house!! He is a junior…
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Sat 12 Mar 2022
March 11 - The 2011 Sendai Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Meltdown
It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began way back in the year 1900. This 2011 earthquake off…
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Fri 11 Mar 2022
March 10 - 1884: The Birth of Tornado Prediction
Finley would go on to write the first known book on the subject of the tornado as well as many other manuals and booklets. This event happened during what was the beginning of experimental tornado p…
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Thu 10 Mar 2022
March 9 - “Weather and War”: 1945 Air Bombing of Tokyo
Early in the morning of March 9th, 1945, American B-29s dropped a flurry of bombs, including napalm and magnesium incendiaries, over the packed residential districts along the Sumida River in eastern…
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Wed 09 Mar 2022
March 8 - The Cataclysmic 1669 Eruption of Mt. Etna
The rumbles of this mountain had increased with frequency and intensity and then it happened. There was not just one; there were several eruptions over the weeks that followed this day in weather hi…
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Tue 08 Mar 2022
March 7 - The Great North American Blizzard of '08
Along its path it wreaked havoc on the east coast of the United States with heavy rain, damaging winds and tornadoes, causing locally significant damage. The intensity and longevity of this monster …
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Mon 07 Mar 2022
March 6 - The ‘Ash Wednesday Storm’ of ‘62
50 years before Sandy's devastation, the Great Atlantic Coastal Storm, from Mar 5 – 9, 1962, battered the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. This storm was particularly bad because it did not m…
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Sun 06 Mar 2022
March 5 - The Macedonian Airlines Flight That Never Made It
This is another tragedy that should have been prevented. Yes, another event where negligence led to a disaster. Only two seconds after takeoff, the aircraft started to shake violently. The plane ro…
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Sat 05 Mar 2022
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