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 1, 2021 - 150th Anniversary of Met Service of Canada
One of Canada’s oldest government institutions, period, is the Meteorological Service of Canada. They have been helping Canadians make informed decisions about their health and safety and, quite fran…
00:07:41 |
Sat 01 May 2021
April 30, 2021 - "Flood of the Century": The Red River
What could have happened for this to be given a name as awe inspiring as “Flood of the Century”? Well for starters, it covered over 2 thousand 500 square kilometers of land -- in water -- and that fo…
00:06:24 |
Fri 30 Apr 2021
April 29, 2021 - Quebec's Major Weather Event of 2019
On April 29, 2019, over 9,000 homes and 273 businesses were flooded in Quebec, and as a result there were now 12,000 people displaced. In the area affected, we also had 82 landslides linked to the fl…
00:05:32 |
Thu 29 Apr 2021
April 28, 2021 - Giant Killer Hail in St. Louis
Two waves of supercell thunderstorms brought widespread large hail to the St. Louis Metropolitan Area and boy do I mean LARGE!! During the afternoon and evening hours of April 28th, 2012 widespread h…
00:05:52 |
Wed 28 Apr 2021
April 27, 2021 - The Fort Albany Flooding & Evacuations
Over the past 45 years, five major ice jam events occurred on the Albany River in Northern Ontario...this is the story of what happened, this day in weather history.
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00:06:32 |
Tue 27 Apr 2021
April 26, 2021 - The Ferocious and deadly Andover Outbreak
Remember Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz when she quipped “Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore”? It was a tornado-like this that prompted that quote. This F5 from this day in weather history…
00:06:25 |
Mon 26 Apr 2021
April 25, 2021 - Mount Everest's Earthquake & Deadliest Avalanche
On this Day in Weather History, during the afternoon of 25 April 2015, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal and surrounding countries. The violent and relentless earth-shaking from the quake trigg…
00:06:25 |
Sun 25 Apr 2021
April 24, 2021 - 300 Years of New Brunswick Flooding
And here we go again...springtime flooding. A combination of melting snow and heavy rain in the spring of 2008 contributed to the worst flooding New Brunswick had seen in 35 years….this day in weathe…
00:06:55 |
Sat 24 Apr 2021
April 23, 2021 - NASA's Ranger 4 Launch to "Shoot The Moon"
On this Day in Weather History, on the 9th we introduced the first 7 astronauts ever in NASA, on the 11th we re-lived the harrowing story of the Apollo 13 mission and on the 12th we launched the firs…
00:06:35 |
Fri 23 Apr 2021
April 22, 2021 - The First Ever Earth Day
We have one home. We will only ever have one home. Earth. We can dream all we want of living on other planets but until we become a totally different species of humans, dreaming is as far as we wil…
00:06:39 |
Thu 22 Apr 2021
April 21, 2021 - Three Rainouts in-a-row at Dodgers Stadium?!
The Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles California after the 1961 baseball season and they made Chavez Ravine their home and Dodger Stadium has stood there ever since. If you are not familiar with…
00:06:11 |
Wed 21 Apr 2021
April 20, 2021 - A Very Rare Early Ontario Tornado Outbreak
On this Day in Weather History, on Saturday, April 20, 1996, The snow had barely melted in Southern Ontario when two F3 tornadoes ripped through the region.
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Tue 20 Apr 2021
April 19, 2021 - The Great Fire of 1904 (City of Toronto)
On this Day in Weather History, Toronto did suffer Hurricane Hazel but what happened here was a horror story that was very close to totally erasing Toronto forever.
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00:06:51 |
Mon 19 Apr 2021
April 18, 2021 - First EF Scale Tornado in Canada
On this day in weather history, the first Canadian tornado that would ever be rated using the Enhanced Fujita Scale touched down in southern Ontario. We explain why the rating scale changed in 2013 a…
00:06:56 |
Sun 18 Apr 2021
April 17, 2021 - The Alberta Blizzard Blitz in Centennial '67
What a year 1967 was for the country of Canada. It was before my time but it was the year celebrating the Canadian Centennial and it went on all year long. Yes, it was the 100th anniversary of the Ca…
00:06:45 |
Sat 17 Apr 2021
April 16, 2021 - Ice Falls from CN Tower IN to Rogers Centre
On this Day in Weather History, on Monday, April 16, 2018, the Toronto Blue Jays postponed their night game after chunks of ice fell from the CN Tower and through the roof of the Rogers Centre into R…
00:05:56 |
Fri 16 Apr 2021
April 15, 2021 - Most Intense Snowfall Ever in USA
Colorado sees a ton of snow and why not, they are defined by the massive Rocky Mountains. But even the snow can reach a point of TOO much. And they hit it when they recorded the Most Snow Measured i…
00:07:18 |
Thu 15 Apr 2021
April 14, 2021 - Not The Wine! Save The Wine!
On this Day in Weather History, spring is as much a pain in the grapes to vineyards as it is to us with the ever-changing conditions and that irritating blend of seasons to provide a messy mix of tem…
00:06:35 |
Wed 14 Apr 2021
April 13, 2021 - The Easter Weekend 140-Tornado Outbreak
On this Day in Weather History, over a 2 day period spanning Easter Sunday and Monday, April 12–13, of the already locked down and quarantined 2020, tornadoes ruined everything for those of the South…
00:07:23 |
Tue 13 Apr 2021
April 12, 2021 - The Space Shuttle Program (literally) Launches!
On this Day in Weather History, a new era in space flight began on April 12, 1981, when Space Shuttle Columbia blasted off into near-earth orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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00:06:37 |
Mon 12 Apr 2021
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