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
August 11, 2022 - When Mount Papandayan BURST to Life!
On August 11, 1772, Mount. Papandayan erupted for the first time, causing the northeast ridge of this great mountain to collapse. This produced a catastrophic debris avalanche that destroyed 40 villa…
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Thu 11 Aug 2022
August 10, 2022 - A MidWest Derecho for All Times
On August 10, 2020, a line of severe thunderstorms covered southeastern South Dakota and northeastern Nebraska across Iowa, northern Illinois, plus southern Wisconsin, Indiana, southwestern Lower Mic…
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Wed 10 Aug 2022
August 9, 2022 - "War in Weather": THE Bomb Drop
On July 25, 1945 General Thomas Handy issued an order to General Carl Spaatz, commander of US Army Strategic Air Forces in Guam, to 'deliver’ the first 'special bomb’ as soon after August 3 as weathe…
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Tue 09 Aug 2022
August 8, 2022 - The Night The Lights Went ON at Wrigley!
I remember being all set up and ready to hit play/record on one of the biggest night in the century old history of the game itself….Wrigley Field in Chicago...Home of the Cubs….finally adopted lights…
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Mon 08 Aug 2022
August 7, 2022 - Virden’s Violent EF-3 Tornado
Back on the August 3rd episode of this podcast I brought to you the 2018 Alonsa, Manitoba EF-4 tornado. Here we are again in the summer in Manitoba. What used to be a relatively rare occurrence: torn…
00:06:02 |
Sun 07 Aug 2022
August 6, 2022 - The 1879 New Brunswick Twister
The Atlantic provinces in Canada average barely 1 tornado per year...but that is since record keeping began and our story today is from 1879….August 6th, 1879 in Bouctouche, New Brunswick….this day i…
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Sat 06 Aug 2022
August 5, 2022 - Summer Tornado Chaos at Gull Lake, Manitoba
Gull Lake is a beautiful and popular, sand bottom lake that is especially jammed full of people lucky enough to book early enough in advance. It boasts a boat mooring, boats that are perfect for all …
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Fri 05 Aug 2022
August 4, 2022 - The Unbelievable Burlington, Ontario Flood
On August 4, 2014, two months' worth of rain fell in the city of Burlington as thunderstorms swept through much of southern Ontario flooding basements and causing millions of dollars in damage; this …
00:06:32 |
Thu 04 Aug 2022
August 3, 2022 - The Alonsa, Manitoba EF-4 Tornado
On August 3, 2018, Alonsa was struck by an EF-4 tornado that tossed vehicles and trailers, and actually ripped a home clear from its foundation. That’s just where our story starts on this day in weat…
00:06:22 |
Wed 03 Aug 2022
August 2, 2022 - The Deadly Downing of Delta 191
On August 2, 1985, Flight 191 a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was viciously and abruptly knocked out of the sky by what is termed a microburst while on approach to land at Dallas Forth Worth…..again, howev…
00:07:06 |
Tue 02 Aug 2022
August 1, 2022 - Hot Hazy Humid Horror in Hogtown
August 1st is a holiday in a number of provinces across Canada and in Ontario it’s the Civic Long Weekend...don't ask me what that even means because I still don't have a clue...but back in 2006, it …
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Mon 01 Aug 2022
July 31, 2022 - The Devastating 1987 Edmonton Twister
The tornado started as a small funnel south of Edmonton. It peaked at F4 on the Fujita scale and remained on the ground for an hour, cutting a swath of destruction 30.8 kilometres (19.1 mi) in length…
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Sun 31 Jul 2022
July 30, 2022 - Unprecedented Flooding Event
How many once in a millennium events should happen in that time frame; I’d say one. But what if places all over were seeing events that to them were of this rarity? That would mean something bigger w…
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Sat 30 Jul 2022
July 29, 2022 - The Birth of NASA
I do love space stories. Remember that this podcast is already more than a year old and this is actually episode #424, so there have already been some real doozy stories involving space. Today is spe…
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Fri 29 Jul 2022
July 28, 2022 - One of the Worst Modern Day Earthquakes
On July 28, 1976 at the very early hour of 3:42 a.m.,while everyone was asleep, an 8.2 magnitude flattened the industrial city of Tangshan, threatening the lives of all one million people who lived t…
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Thu 28 Jul 2022
July 27, 2022 - I Dare You To....Fly Into a Hurricane!
July 27, 1943 marks the day Col. Joseph Duckworth and Lt. Ralph O'Hair of the U.S. Air Force piloted the first ever plane into the eye of a hurricane. They flew the AT-6 Texan over the Gulf of Mexico…
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Wed 27 Jul 2022
July 26, 2022 - The Deadly California Wildfire-NADO!
In July 2018, a wildfire near Redding, California, erupted. On the 26th, This Day in Weather History, it exploded into what was determined to have been a fire tornado with winds on par with those of …
00:06:19 |
Tue 26 Jul 2022
July 25, 2022 - The Ultra-Rare Alaska Tornado
Think of a state in the US where you would last suspect a twister, Massatusettes doesn't count because we did an episode on them the day before yesterday. Today we hit the Last Frontier; Alaska, This…
00:06:27 |
Mon 25 Jul 2022
July 24, 2022 - The Machu Picchu was Discovered
Maccu Picchu is an ancient Inca settlement in Peru that is now one of the world’s top tourist destinations....and it’s location made full personal use of weather benefits and exacted it’s perils upon…
00:06:45 |
Sun 24 Jul 2022
July 23, 2022 - Rare Massachusetts Tornado "Outbreak"
According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, of the roughly 1,253 tornadoes that the United States averages per year, of these Massachusetts sees only one. So let's find out n…
00:06:23 |
Sat 23 Jul 2022
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