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
February 13 - A North American Blizzard & A Hamilton Snow Record
The February 2007 North American blizzard was a massive winter storm that swept across and adversely affected most of the eastern half of North America, that ran for 3 days: February 12, Through the …
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Sun 13 Feb 2022
February 12 - The Stranded Yukon Quest Mushers
On February 12, 2006, this day in weather history...brutal weather was responsible for trapping and stranding five Yukon Quest mushers and their team on Eagle Summit. These racers and their teams w…
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Sat 12 Feb 2022
February 11 - Black History Month: "The Tuskegee Weathermen"
Many people are familiar with the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. But, did you know that there was a Tuskegee Weather Detachment that played a role in producing the first black meteorologists? The …
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Fri 11 Feb 2022
February 10 - The Deadly 1970 Val d’sere Avalanche
Val d’sere, France has been part of the Alpine Skiing World Cup since the late 1960s and was the site for Alpine skiing competitions at the 1992 Winter games in Albertville, France. They played hos…
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Thu 10 Feb 2022
February 9 - The NYC 1969 "Storm of the Century"
This nor'easter developed on February 8, and as it moved towards the northeast, intensifying to become a powerful storm, it unloaded a staggering 20in of snow (51 cm). The snow really amped up on th…
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Wed 09 Feb 2022
February 8 - The Worst Storm in Canadian Railway History
The Great Saskatchewan Blizzard of 1947 hit an area where families were still getting to know each other after returning from World War 2. There were also populations of displaced residents from Gre…
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Tue 08 Feb 2022
February 7 - The 2016 Costly Closure of Manitoba's Hwy75
Manitoba’s Highway 75, is part of what is termed “Canada's National Highway System”; it is also part of a network of highways and rail lines that makes up the “International Mid-Continent Trade Corri…
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Mon 07 Feb 2022
February 6 - Before January 2022, THIS Was THE "Toronto Blizzard"
The snowfall was nonstop for 24 hours; and when the taps turned off, these GTA locations were buried under huge accumulation totals:
25 cm in downtown Toronto,
30 cm in Markham,
33 cm at Pearson…
00:07:31 |
Sun 06 Feb 2022
February 5 - The Tragic 2017 Afghanistan Avalanches
The full picture of the impact of this series of catastrophic events would unfold and it was far greater than anyone could have imagined when it happened this day in weather history. In all, 22 out …
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Sat 05 Feb 2022
February 4 - Chilliwack, BC: A Year’s Worth of Snow in 3 Days
We’ve covered this before, there are areas in BC that are simply not known for appreciable amounts of snow and for that reason people from around Canada will relocate there to avoid it. It was a “St…
00:06:43 |
Fri 04 Feb 2022
February 3 - "Black History Month": First Black TV Weathercaster in the US.
This happened 12 years before Al Roker started as a weather anchor for a CBS affiliate in Syracuse. Dianne Elizabeth Johnson was born in St. Louis, Missouri on Dec. 28, 1938. She was the daughter o…
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Thu 03 Feb 2022
February 2 - The "Groundhog Day" Story
It was 2 features that combined for this tour de force that blanketed this massive area of North America. There was a surface and a supporting upper level feature that merged in this one. This one…
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Wed 02 Feb 2022
February 1 - "Weather and Space Exploration": The Space Shuttle Disasters
On February 1st, 2003, 17 years and 3 days since the Challenger was lost with all of her crew 73 seconds after lift-off, the world was blind-sided when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it …
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Tue 01 Feb 2022
January 31 - The 1906 Ecuador-Colombia Earthquake
The earthquake immediately triggered a destructive tsunami that claimed the souls of 500 people who were along the coast of Colombia. This was not the only event of this kind that century.
Learn m…
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Mon 31 Jan 2022
January 30 - The 1870 Disappearance of The City of Boston
The City of Boston set sail from Halifax, Nova Scotia for Liverpool on 28 January Se was commanded by Captain Halcrow with 191 people on board. But the SS City of Boston never reached her final desti…
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Sun 30 Jan 2022
January 29 - The 1921 Great Olympic "Blowdown"
Just some of the destruction that you'll hear about in the full podcast:
The destruction:
Hurricane-force winds destroyed billions of board-feet of timber across the Olympic Peninsula.
Over 40 per…
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Sat 29 Jan 2022
January 28 - The Legendary "Blizzard of ‘77"
This was as much a Canada story as it was a US story. But the worst of it did definitely hit Western NY. Through the 5 days of this, there were daily peak wind gusts ranging from 74 to 111 km/hr. …
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Fri 28 Jan 2022
January 27 - The Niagara Falls Honeymoon Bridge Collapse!
Niagara Falls! It has been the honeymoon capital of the world on and off for centuries. Royalty have stayed there, rockstars, movie stars and other elite. The bridge was an international passage t…
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Thu 27 Jan 2022
January 26 - Why Chicago Blizzard Snow Got Shipped to Florida
Important to note that the previous record snowfall for the city was 19 inches (48cm) on March 25th and 26th, of 1930. So to beat it by a clear 10cm is really something!! This storm had it all: wind…
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Wed 26 Jan 2022
January 25 - The First Ever "Winter Olympics" Begins
16 countries gathered to compete in sports like figure skating, speed skating, hockey, curling and a whole lot more. But the opening ceremonies were on this day in weather history. On the morning of…
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Tue 25 Jan 2022
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