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
September 20 - "Igor" Stomps All Over Newfoundland
Within 24 hours, Hurricane Igor would become the worst storm of the modern era to strike the province. This is where we start today...this day in weather history.
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Tue 20 Sep 2022
September 19 - "Come From Away": The Weather Story
Gander is a wildly picturesque small Atlantic Canadian town. In 2001, its population was barely over 9500 so when they took in nearly 6,700 frightened strangers who had no plans to land in the North …
00:06:39 |
Mon 19 Sep 2022
September 18 - When Maria AND the Response Crippled Puerto Rico
But Hurricane Maria in 2017 was very much a Puerto Rico Story. It was the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in more than 80 years. It wiped out homes, roads, and bridges, while also knocking out…
00:06:49 |
Sun 18 Sep 2022
September 17, 2022 - NASA Introduces “The Space Shuttle”
On September 17, 1976, NASA publicly unveiled its first space shuttle, and in the most appropriate move ever made by NASA in their history...according to sci-fi nerds like me...they called it The Ent…
00:06:23 |
Sat 17 Sep 2022
September 16, 2022 - The Hurricane That Hit Central Florida
The Okeechobee Hurricane still stands today after all this time as one of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the Atlantic basin. Most of the damage from that storm was where the population ha…
00:06:45 |
Fri 16 Sep 2022
September 15, 2022 - When "Sally" Slammed the Gulf Coast
Sally was called by NOAA “an erratic hurricane, both in its track and intensity”, that made landfall along the coast of Alabama at category 2 intensity. There was over 30 inches of rain in Pensacola …
00:06:32 |
Thu 15 Sep 2022
September 14, 2022 - "And They're Off"! - The Great Space Race
In 1957, the Soviets shocked the United States by becoming the first nation to launch a satellite into orbit around the earth when they successfully put Sputnik into orbit. Then, on September 14 of …
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Wed 14 Sep 2022
September 13, 2022 - Hurricane Ike Grounds Galveston to a Pulp
At its time, Ike was the second-costliest in United States history. Ike was blamed for at least 195 deaths, 113 of whom were in the US. Due to just how massive Ike was, there was clear devastation st…
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Tue 13 Sep 2022
September 12, 2022 - The 1857 Ship that Sunk the Economy
She was called the SS Central America, known as the Ship of Gold. Today we are recounting the story of when she sank in a hurricane, taking with her 425 of her 578 passengers and crew and 30,000 poun…
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Mon 12 Sep 2022
September 11, 2022 - The September 11th Episode
Hawaii’s tourism is driven by eternally active volcanoes and the site of the first ever attack on US soil when Pearl Harbour was bombed by Japan in WW2. This storm happened on the date that would see…
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Sun 11 Sep 2022
September 10, 2022 - Betsy: The First $Billion Hurricane
On August 29th, 2021 New Orleans was battered to a pulp by Hurricane Ida. 16 years prior to that very day, they were drowned by the effects of Katrina. Today , however, is actually THE day when New O…
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Sat 10 Sep 2022
September 9, 2022 - The 1775 Newfoundland Hurricane
This massive storm is believed to have killed at least 4,000 people in Newfoundland, making it one of the top ten deadliest Atlantic hurricanes, the deadliest hurricane to strike Canada and it was al…
00:06:53 |
Fri 09 Sep 2022
September 8, 2022 - The 1952 Launch of a CBC Legend
Percy Saltzman was already a veteran meteorologist. Likely he had no idea that he would go on to be the first face on Canadian TV when CBC TV inaugurated English language broadcasting in Canada.
Lear…
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Thu 08 Sep 2022
September 7, 2022 - The 1991 Hail Hammering of Calgary Alberta
With tennis ball sized hailstones raining down on Calgary, for its time it was the most destructive hail storm in Canadian history. For 30 minutes these large masses of mangled congealed ice rocks ha…
00:06:12 |
Wed 07 Sep 2022
September 6, 2022 - The 1666 "Great Fire of London"
This deadly and destructive fire swept through the central parts of the city from Sunday, 2 September to Thursday, 6 September in the year 1666! Among the collateral damage was a total gutting of the…
00:06:58 |
Tue 06 Sep 2022
September 5, 2022 - Cat 5 "Irma" Crushes the Caribbean
Irma was the most intense hurricane to strike the continental United States since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the first major hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Wilma in the same year, and th…
00:06:25 |
Mon 05 Sep 2022
September 4, 2022 - Hurricane Felix Flexes on Nicaragua
When Felix made landfall, it struck just south of the border between Nicaragua and Honduras with sustained winds at 260 kilometers per hour (160 miles per hour). Due to the extent of the damage and t…
00:05:57 |
Sun 04 Sep 2022
September 3, 2022 - The 1999 Hwy 401 Fog Disaster
On the morning of Friday, September 3, 1999, a malfunction at the Windsor Airport Observation Station failed to detect foggy conditions, and subsequently no fog warnings were issued. The malfunction …
00:06:20 |
Sat 03 Sep 2022
September 2, 2022 - The Labour Day Levelling of South Florida
The "Labor Day Hurricane" of 1935 was one of four Category 5 hurricanes in history to strike the continental United States, along with Hurricane Andrew in 1992, Hurricane Camille in 1969, and Hurrica…
00:06:43 |
Fri 02 Sep 2022
September 1, 2022 - Dorian Devastates The Bahamas
It is considered to be the worst natural disaster in that country's history. It was most assuredly the most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the Bahamas. As a newly christened F5 category…
00:06:32 |
Thu 01 Sep 2022
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