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 4 - THE Historic 1998 Ice Storm!
It was a massive combination of five smaller successive ice storms in January 1998. But it came in and through like a train across a narrow track of land spanning most of eastern Canada and the nort…
00:06:39 |
Tue 04 Jan 2022
January 3 - The Spirit Has Landed...On Mars!!
They were sent there to find evidence that life either does or ever did exist on Mars, the rovers were to study the history of climate and water at sites on Mars where conditions had been speculated …
00:06:41 |
Mon 03 Jan 2022
January 2 - Deja Vu? TWO Hurricane Alices in ONE Season
How exactly did that happen? It was paperwork. For 1955, we did not have the same instant access to data and communication we would have in the years that followed. This mix-up resulted in an "Ali…
00:06:48 |
Sun 02 Jan 2022
January 1 - New Years Day Special Edition ON ICE!
Happy New Year!!! I LIVE for New years Day...back in the past it was for college football bowl games but I lost interest when they took this one day event and spread it out over weeks and added game…
00:13:56 |
Sat 01 Jan 2022
December 31 - 2021 "Year in Review": Canada Edition
We had The Barrie Tornado part 2 that shook the province of Ontario. We had epic snow for Newfoundland at the beginning of winter AND at the beginning of spring!! And "Beautiful British Colombia" …
00:14:35 |
Fri 31 Dec 2021
December 30 - 2021 "Year in Review": International Edition
I cover the day it was announced we hit the hottest day on earth. There was the hottest day ever in Europe. There was the blizzard warning for HAWAII!! There were freak rogue fires, snowstorms and …
00:12:34 |
Thu 30 Dec 2021
December 21 - The Winter Solstice Special at Newgrange in Ireland
On November 15th of this year I was flown to Ireland with this podcast to produce television segments and this podcast episode covering a huge day in human life; the winter solstice!
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00:14:54 |
Tue 21 Dec 2021
October 26 - The Story of OUR Bluenose Schooner
It was reported that the Bluenose struck a coral reef off the coast of Haiti. The crew were safe but the ship was so badly damaged that it would soon sink to the bottom of the Caribbean sea. No one …
00:12:06 |
Tue 26 Oct 2021
June 19, 2021 - 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…
00:06:10 |
Fri 18 Jun 2021
June 1, 2021 - The 1-Year Anniversary Special for TDIWH
We Made It! This is episode 1 of Year 2!. Today is a special longer-length episode where we will look back at how this all came to be and what goes into the production of a podcast. Especially one th…
00:14:59 |
Tue 01 Jun 2021
May 31, 2021 - The Barrie-GrandValley-Tottenham Tornadoes of 1985
We made it! Today is the final episode for the first year of this podcast!! It’s been a long and winding road but one that has seen this project rocket from just me at the start to a much larger and …
00:07:55 |
Mon 31 May 2021
May 30, 2021 - The Ugly Disasters of "Vanport"
In the pacific Northweat all you have to do is utter the name Vanport, Oregon and it will send shivers down the spines of "well-bred" Portlanders. We get into why right now on this day in weather his…
00:07:11 |
Sun 30 May 2021
May 29, 2021 - The Tragic "Empress of Ireland" Shipwreck
For today’s special episode I tell you the story of Canada’s deadliest peacetime maritime disaster. Before you start asking questions, let me throw you a few knuckle balls: This shipwreck didn’t happ…
00:05:38 |
Sat 29 May 2021
May 28, 2021 - A Solar Eclipse for the Ages
At the turn of the century, a century ago, thousands of people across the southeastern United States gathered to witness a rare and spectacular sight as the moon cast its shadow across the sun and da…
00:06:37 |
Fri 28 May 2021
May 27, 2021 - The 2017 Toronto Island Flood Crisis
In 2017, water levels in Lake Ontario were at their highest recorded level in more than 100 years. And on May 27th, they reached that peak, a level that was recorded at 75.93m on this day in weather …
00:06:20 |
Thu 27 May 2021
May 26, 2021 - Soccer Ball Sized Hail leads to Terrifying Flight
Today we look at the curious case of a BMI airbus bound for Cyprus from Manchester, England. They never made it, this day in weather history.
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00:06:14 |
Wed 26 May 2021
May 25, 2021 - Lightning Strikes 11 at a Picnic!
When thunder roars go indoors. To some it’s a cliche thing weathercasters say but did you know that this one simple phrase could mean the difference between life and death? It sure did for the 11 peo…
00:06:32 |
Tue 25 May 2021
May 24, 2021 - The Rise of the Stormchasers
On May 24, 1973, an F4 tornado struck Union City Oklahoma but that was not the big story. Not on THIS day in weather history.
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00:06:45 |
Mon 24 May 2021
May 23, 2021 - The Timmins-9 Wildfire
The number of fires and areas burnt was not a record high for this region, but what differentiated it was what and who it affected; these were moving in on urban centres this day in weather history.
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00:06:17 |
Sun 23 May 2021
May 22, 2021 - The Deadly and Destructive Joplin EF5
Tornadoes are fierce and unpredictable. Chasers know this all too well. Especially those who came back with research and images from the EF5 that crushed Joplin Missouri in 2001 on this day in weathe…
00:07:25 |
Sat 22 May 2021
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