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
May 21, 2021 - The F4 Tornado that Struck Sarnia
Yesterday was Moore Oklahoma, tomorrow is Joplin Missouri; BOTH EF5 monsters and both within 8 years of each other. Today we go back to the year 1953 for the F4 that hit Sarnia Ontario, this day in w…
00:06:23 |
Fri 21 May 2021
May 20, 2021 - The Deadly Moore, OK EF5 Tornado
Oklahoma typically experiences around 60 tornadoes a year. Afterall, It is part of Tornado Alley, a nickname for this unique geographical area in the southern plains of the central United States, whe…
00:07:41 |
Thu 20 May 2021
May 19, 2021 - New England's "Dark Day"
It was on a Tuesday, it was March 17th in the year 2020 when six-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady announced that his 20 years in New England was over. At that time it was reported that the skies da…
00:07:21 |
Wed 19 May 2021
May 18, 2021 - The 1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption
On the morning of May 18, Mount St. Helens was shaken by an earthquake of about 5.0 magnitude, and the entire north side of the summit began to slide down the mountain. This Day in Weather History.
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00:07:17 |
Tue 18 May 2021
May 17, 2021 - The Crash That Cancelled the Opening of a New Airport
It was not a bad day weather wise on take off but things changed fast and for the worse. We are back in the year 2001 and this Faraz Qeshm Airlines Yak-40 was a short-haul trijet en route to Gorgan A…
00:05:49 |
Mon 17 May 2021
May 16, 2021 - There is a HOLE in The Ozone Layer!!
If we were to lose the Ozone layer of atmosphere we would be in big big trouble. Top of the list of concerns would be radiation from the sun would be able to reach earth directly. Sounds pretty horri…
00:07:10 |
Sun 16 May 2021
May 15, 2021 - The 1951 Hurricane Able
Hurricane Able was a rare hurricane that formed outside the typical North Atlantic hurricane season. We still had to get to June 1st and we were nowhere near that date on this day in weather history.…
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Sat 15 May 2021
May 14, 2021 - The VERY Late Southern Alberta Blizzard
With 5 weeks to go to the first official day of Summer, people had their snowmobiles put away and motorcycles out already. The had skis and snowboards already switched out for water skis and hiking g…
00:07:02 |
Fri 14 May 2021
May 13, 2021 - Early 2014 Southern Ontario Tornadoes
This collision is called Springtime. Shoulder seasons of spring and fall have some of the most violent weather because of the dynamic gradient between patterns and their associated air masses. And th…
00:05:59 |
Thu 13 May 2021
May 12, 2021 - Mayhem in Miami with a Mad-capped Twister
In 1997 people boarding cruise ships, or rollerblading or showing off their mid-life crisis convertible Cadillacs had to have been stunned when they saw a twister in the middle of the day in the midd…
00:06:13 |
Wed 12 May 2021
May 11, 2021 - Welcome to the 1934 "Dust Bowl"
It was on May 11, back in 1934, when a massive storm sent millions of tons of topsoil flying from across the country...this day in weather history.
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Tue 11 May 2021
May 10, 2021 - The 2010 Norman Oklahoma Tornado Story
Tornadoes are horrifying and swift, they are in, they terrorize, destroy, sometimes even kill and then they are gone. So for an outbreak to go on for 4 DAYS, that’s just out of control!! This one sta…
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Mon 10 May 2021
May 9, 2021 - "SNOWmencement" for the U of Colorado
Remember Grad? If you had an outdoor graduation commencement and you think back, I bet you probably don't remember the weather. Today is the curious case that unfolded for the University of Colorado'…
00:06:47 |
Sun 09 May 2021
May 8, 2021 - The 'Super Derecho' of 2009
The derecho is essentially just a widespread, long-lived wind storm. But on May 8, 2009 when one of the most intense and unusual derechos was ever observed, they called it a "Super Derecho", this day…
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Sat 08 May 2021
May 7, 2021 - Mount Pelee Wipes St. Pierre Of The Map
Mount Pelée is a gorgeous 4,500-foot mountain on the north side of the Caribbean island of Martinique. On May 7, 1902, this day in weather history, Martinique’s Mount Pelée began the deadliest volcan…
00:06:52 |
Fri 07 May 2021
May 6, 2021 - Tragic BC Flooding
In 2017, the interior experienced the worst flooding ever. They were talking about this one in the Okanagan for MONTHS after this day in weather history.
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Thu 06 May 2021
May 5, 2021 - The Night the Moon Disappeared
For this impossible story today, we will refer to records over nine hundred years old, when witnesses reported that the Full Moon briefly vanished from the sky during a total lunar eclipse. This Day …
00:06:41 |
Wed 05 May 2021
May 4, 2021 - The Town that DROPPED Then DISAPPEARED.
On May 4, 1971 a low that covered most of Quebec brought relentless rain for three consecutive days. But that triggered the disappearance of a whole community this day in weather history
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00:06:19 |
Tue 04 May 2021
May 3, 2021 - "And Their Earth Was Swallowed By Fire"
On May 1, 2016, a wildfire began southwest of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. on May 3, when it swiftly blew through the community, it immediately forced the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's …
00:07:17 |
Mon 03 May 2021
May 2, 2021 - Ottawa's SECOND "Flood of a Century" in Two Years?
Back in 2017 the Ottawa river had what was called “Flood of the Century”. BUT then THIS new record setting flooding along the Ottawa River was named Canada’s top weather story in 2019….it happened th…
00:06:59 |
Sun 02 May 2021
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