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
January 24 - The Rainfall That Broke a 110-Year Record
The city of Belo Horizonte, host of 2014 World Cup soccer matches, saw 171 mm (6.7 in) of rainfall within a 24-hour period between the 23–24 January; this blew away a record that had stood for 110 ye…
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Mon 24 Jan 2022
January 23 - "Capital Punishment"
One of the most bizarre side stories of this winter storm is that, one month prior, because of the effects of El Nino, the eastern US experienced one of the warmest end of December on record. From J…
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Sun 23 Jan 2022
January 22 - The New Jersey Devils’ “334 Club”
The game between the Calgary Flames and the New Jersey Devils on Jan. 22, 1987 wasn't expected to be a historic affair. But when close to two feet of snow dropped in on the tri-state area, it actual…
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Sat 22 Jan 2022
January 21 - The Mind-bending 1999 US Tornado Outbreak
They normally only see 33 tornadoes per year...and even at that, they normally occur in the spring. It broke a record for a tornado outbreak in January. It lasted 46 hours. The whole thing took place…
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Fri 21 Jan 2022
January 20 - US Presidential Inauguration Weather Stories
Today we cover the:
1961 Kennedy Inauguration, known as either “The January 1961 nor'easter” or “The Kennedy Inaugural Snowstorm”?
1841 William Henry Harrison Inauguration where the weather played…
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Thu 20 Jan 2022
January 19 - 2020 Opens With Australia ON FIRE!!
The 2019–20 Australian bushfire season came to be known as Black Summer. The Black was a tip to the mood, and the colour of the land left behind by a blaze that was, at times, burning in every provi…
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Wed 19 Jan 2022
January 18 - When Hartland, NB ALMOST Lost Their Historic Bridge
Ice jams in New Brunswick are common but this year they were threatening to destroy the world's longest covered bridge. In this race against mother nature, authorities said a major jam had pushed ic…
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Tue 18 Jan 2022
January 17 - The St. John's New Year Blizzard
It was speculated at the time that the St. John's Airport had in fact experienced its snowiest January on record with 166 cm recorded to that point.
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Mon 17 Jan 2022
January 16 - The 2020 BC Storm Aftermath
A powerful wind and snow storm smashed into B.C.'s South Coast on January 15th that knocked out power in many regions but then that overnight the intensity faded but it was too late; on the 16th, we …
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Sun 16 Jan 2022
January 15 - Spanish Flu + Molasses + Boston
We were in WW1 still, and the planet was gripped by a deadly pandemic AND yet still in a North End neighbourhood of Boston, Massachusetts, a large storage tank filled with molasses burst and the effe…
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Sat 15 Jan 2022
January 14 - Yes, THAT 1999 Toronto Snow Storm
This story comes with decades of built up legend and a bit of myth mixed in. Did Mayor Mel Lastman make the right call when he brought in military assistance to help in that 1999 snow storm? You mu…
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Fri 14 Jan 2022
January 13 - Air Florida Flight Crashes Into A Bridge!
It hit seven occupied vehicles and destroyed 97 feet (30 m) of guard rail before eventually plunging through the winter ice and into the Potomac River. There were 79 people on board including 74 pas…
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Thu 13 Jan 2022
January 12 - The Tragic Haiti Earthquake of 2010
An estimated three million people were affected by the quake, that equates to 20% of the nation's 10.4 million population at that time. One of the most horrifying facts from this January 12th earthq…
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Wed 12 Jan 2022
January 11 - Record Rainfall in Southern Ontario...in JANUARY!!
Here are just some of the more noteworthy totals from those 2 days:
Toronto, measured at Pearson Airport reported 70mm of rain which I mentioned was a record after 59mm was reached.
Just to its nor…
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Tue 11 Jan 2022
January 10 - The Saskatoon Blizzard of '07
Blowing snow brought visibility to virtually 0 for several hours. All vehicle traffic was either ground to a stand-still or ordered to halt, as highways were closed. The poor to no visibility and s…
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Mon 10 Jan 2022
January 9 - Fireworks at the End of Michigan Highway Horror
It happened the morning of January 9, 2015, in freezing cold blustery conditions. At the time of the accident, it was reported by those involved that visibility was down to ZERO; total a white-out c…
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Sun 09 Jan 2022
January 8 - It Rained HOW MUCH In Only 24 Hours?!
An island in East Africa and Located in the Indian Ocean, nowhere on Earth sees heavier rainstorms than the tiny French island, Reunion Island. But NOTHING compared to this!
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Sat 08 Jan 2022
January 7 - An F4 Tornado in January?! In CHICAGO?!
When you drive through the town of Allendale, you will notice its rugged yet quaint properties that make this wee town rather charming. What today you will not see is any evidence of the devastating…
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Fri 07 Jan 2022
January 6 - First NBA Game Rained Out...INDOORS!
Winters in Seattle can be rough, like Vancouver to its north, it can be rain soaked for much of the season. The Seattle NBA Super Sonics first competed in their home, the Coliseum, in 1966. It featu…
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Thu 06 Jan 2022
January 5 - Blue Mountain Suddenly Closes Mid-Season
Sadly by January 5th, 2007, third-busiest ski resort in Canada (after Whistler, B.C., and Tremblant, Quebec), Ontario’s largest ski resort, Blue Mountain, in Collingwood, was forced to lay-off 1,300 …
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Wed 05 Jan 2022
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