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
October 30 - "The Perfect Storm"
On October 30, 1991, the so-called “perfect storm” hit the North Atlantic producing remarkably large waves along the New England and Canadian coasts. The damage caused by these enormous waves was wid…
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Sun 30 Oct 2022
October 29 - Hurricane Sandy Part 2: "Impacto Profundo"
On October 25th of this podcast we followed Sandy as it became a hurricane then as it carved through everything in its path through the Caribbean. It rolled over Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti and The Bahamas.…
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Sat 29 Oct 2022
October 28 - The Great 1707 Japan Earthquake
The island nation of Japan is located along an intersection of 4 tectonic plates. As a result of this, a tremor occurs in Japan with a frequency of at least every five minutes. That equates to a tota…
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Fri 28 Oct 2022
October 27 - World Series Game TWICE Delayed by Weather
Coming out of St. Petersburg and heading to Philadelphia after the first two games of the 2008 World Series, the heavily favoured Phillies were braced for bad weather. They are from here, they know t…
00:06:52 |
Thu 27 Oct 2022
October 26 - 26 Tornadoes in US Midwest!
Today we look back at a series of low-topped supercells that dropped, a total of 26 tornadoes; Five of which were rated F2. It happened October 26th, 1996...this day in weather history.
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Wed 26 Oct 2022
October 25 - Hurricane Sandy Part 1 - "At Its Strongest"
Today is part ONE, when Sandy was at its peak intensity. We will pick this story up in 4 days when Sandy made its landfall on the mid Atlantic seaboard and unleashed a storm surge that residents of L…
00:06:53 |
Tue 25 Oct 2022
October 24 - The Hottest World Series Game on Record
The "Fall Classic". Welcome back to October special on “World Series Weather” on This Day in Weather History. It was already a hot day that Tuesday afternoon. At 2:45pm, hours before the game started…
00:06:34 |
Mon 24 Oct 2022
October 23 - THE Strongest Hurricane on Record in the Western Hemisphere.
Hurricane Patricia made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph(over 240km/h) in Jalisco state of southwest Mexico on this day in weather history at 6:15 p.m. CDT. …
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Sun 23 Oct 2022
October 22 - The Never-Ending Nor'easter
Some of the greatest rainfalls over the four days were recorded at Grand Manan (162 mm), Yarmouth (109 mm) and Baccaro Point (137 mm). Peak winds were reported at Cape Sable Island, clocking in at 18…
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Sat 22 Oct 2022
October 21 - World Series Snow - Florida vs. Cleveland
Spring training in Florida began with regularity back in 1913. The idea was that while snow covered the fields back where the parent clubs lived, Florida was perfect location to get together and play…
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Fri 21 Oct 2022
October 20 - Cape Breton Crushing of 1974
One who was there for this storm was Mr. Ken MacDonald, a listener and fan of this podcast. He sent me this story from his perspective along with material from which to research further the details o…
00:07:31 |
Thu 20 Oct 2022
October 19 - The Next Yankees Dynasty is Delayed by the Weather
Game 1 of the 1996 World Series between the Braves and Yankees was to be played at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, New York. That was the plan….but the weather was simply too much and the opener was postpon…
00:06:48 |
Wed 19 Oct 2022
October 18 - The 2005 Rage of Hurricane Wilma
It would be 15 years until another season would have a W-named storm – Tropical Storm Wilfred in 2020. Hurricane Wilma was the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, and w…
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Tue 18 Oct 2022
October 17 - The 1989 !EARTHQUAKE! World Series
During that pregame a powerful 7.1-magnitude quake centred in the Santa Cruz Mountains rocked the region from Santa Cruz to Oakland. After this, this world series was forever known by another moniker…
00:06:52 |
Mon 17 Oct 2022
October 16 - Hurricane Hazel Tears Through Toronto
On October 14, just before its first landfall on the Carolinas, Hazel’s wind speeds rocketed to 240 kilometres per hour (150 mph), and THAT qualified it to be upgraded to a Category 4 storm. By the t…
00:06:34 |
Sun 16 Oct 2022
October 15 - WORST Weather EVER for a World Series Game 7
Games had twice been postponed due to poor weather. A routine pop fly that would normally be caught 999 out of 1,000 times, everyone watched the ball fly into the outfield and followed it until it to…
00:06:33 |
Sat 15 Oct 2022
October 14 - WW2 Killer France Flash Floods
Several months' worth of rain fell in just a few hours through the overnight hours of October 14th, 2018, leaving roads severed in some areas.
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00:06:19 |
Fri 14 Oct 2022
October 13 - The Fort Erie Freak Fall Storm
Starting as rain in the afternoon of Thursday October 12, as the day gave way to night it turned to a heavy wet snow. Then as temperatures dropped overnight and into the early hours of Friday The 13t…
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Thu 13 Oct 2022
October 12 - Yo! Ho! Blow the STATE Down!
This powerful Pacific Northwest windstorm beat down the West Coast of Canada and the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States on October 12, 1962, this day in weather history. To put this into pe…
00:05:53 |
Wed 12 Oct 2022
October 11 - “Vince” Rinses Spain with Heavy Rain
With Vince, this was the first time the english alphabet was extinguished of names in an Atlantic Hurricane season….that would not happen again until the bizarre and bonkers year 2020.
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Tue 11 Oct 2022
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