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
July 22, 2022 - The Mighty Mississippi Devours an Island
The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 affected both great bodies of life giving water and those that feed them along the way…..was a flood that occurred in the Midwestern United Sta…
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Fri 22 Jul 2022
July 21, 2022 - The $100-Million Okanagan Wipe Out
We all love apples, grapes, cherries and, let's face it, wine! Honestly, who doesn't?? So it would be a massive and costly disaster if they were to be wiped out in a major weather event. Let's see ju…
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Thu 21 Jul 2022
July 20, 2022 - The Decision That Would Cost Many Lives
The Saguenay region of Quebec has suffered several natural disasters. There was the landslide in 1971 and an earthquake in 1988. These events, however, cannot compare with the disastrous flooding tha…
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Wed 20 Jul 2022
July 19, 2022 - Tonight: St. Louis Cardinals vs. A TORNADO!
Growing up I always learned that when thunder roars, go indoors. That was not entirely how things played out at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, MO. on the night of July 19th, 2006. But it seriously shoul…
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Tue 19 Jul 2022
July 18, 2022 - The Curious Tale of Hurricane Emily
Hurricane Emily was a powerful, early season, Cape Verde tropical cyclone that caused significant damage across the Caribbean Sea to Mexico. At it’s time, It was the earliest forming Category 5 Atlan…
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Mon 18 Jul 2022
July 17, 2022 - Tornado Terror To Toronto and Beyond
On July 17th 2006, a massive series of storms moved across Ontario and Quebec. The damaged track was nearly 400 kilometres long, one of the longest in Ontario history. And it happened this day in wea…
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Sun 17 Jul 2022
July 16, 2022 - The 1996 Giant Winnipeg Hail
On July 16, 1996, an hour and a half storm in Winnipeg brought hailstones up to 70 mm in diameter. It happened this day in weather history.
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Sat 16 Jul 2022
July 15, 2022 - The Day Peterborough Flooded
Peterborough, Ontario was hit by two bands of wet weather, one Wednesday evening and the other early Thursday. They poured a combined 193 mm of rain on the city. This turned residential streets into …
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Fri 15 Jul 2022
July 14, 2022 - The Tragedy at Pine Lake
The date was July 14, 2000 and a terrible funnel cloud carved a kilometre-wide path of destruction, tossing fragile mobile homes into the lake and smashing others beyond recognition; this day in weat…
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Thu 14 Jul 2022
July 13, 2022 - World Football Finals vs SNOW!?
In 1929, Uruguay was awarded the right to host the first-ever World Cup of Soccer tournament in 1930. But why would a country that has a winter climate in July be given the opportunity to host the ev…
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Wed 13 Jul 2022
July 12, 2022 - Bertha Bashes The Carolinas & Threatens '96 Atlanta Games
The villages were jammed, preparations final and we were only literally one week, 7 days away from the opening ceremonies at the big global summer collection of games that draws athletes from around …
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Tue 12 Jul 2022
July 11, 2022 - Blown Away at the '61 MLB All-Star Game
On July 11, 1961, San Francisco Giants pitcher Stu Miller was literally blown off the mound during the MLB’s first All-Star Game at Candlestick Park, this day in weather history.
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Mon 11 Jul 2022
July 10, 2022 - Weather "Plagues" '86 Women's Golf Final
On July 10, 1986 - it was the first day of the U.S. Women’s Open in Dayton, Ohio. On the surface you’d think...Okay….but this year, everything that could go wrong, did go wrong with the weather and o…
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Sun 10 Jul 2022
July 9, 2022 - "Tornado Alley, MANITOBA"?!
On July 9, 2009 at 8:20pm, this cell spawned an F2 tornado striking Fisherman's Cove resort on Lac Seul, a small lake near the remote fishing town of Ear Falls Ontario. It was the deadliest tornado t…
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Sat 09 Jul 2022
July 8, 2022 - Toronto Underwater!
If you have ever been to Toronto then you know how critical the Don Valley Parkway is in moving millions of people from the north to the south of this massive megalopolis….but it is also prone to fil…
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Fri 08 Jul 2022
July 7, 2022 - Behold! The Hoover Dam Riseth!
President Herbert Hoover was an environmentalist so deal with it! His main focus points included pollution-free water, flood control, and fisheries. So, therefore, after a disastrous Mississippi Rive…
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Thu 07 Jul 2022
July 6, 2022 - The Demolishing Drummondville Tornado
Tornadoes are not common but hardly rare in the province of Quebec. As a matter of fact, Of the 426 tornadoes tracked in Quebec between 1980 and 2009, only seven were considered a disaster, that is d…
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Wed 06 Jul 2022
July 5, 2022 - Canada's Deadliest Heatwave Hits Hard
On July 5th, 1936, one of the deadliest heat waves in Canadian history started as it hit Manitoba and Ontario and it lasted for almost two weeks. Beginning this day in weather history.
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Tue 05 Jul 2022
July 4, 2022 - Saskatchewan's "Twister'd" 4th of July
HOPEFULLY everyone will be safe and happy and in better shape than the Canadian Province of Saskatchewan was On July 4th 1996, when a thunderstorm outbreak spawned an estimated 11 tornadoes …. This D…
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Mon 04 Jul 2022
July 3, 2022 - The "Freak" NWT Wild Fire $eason
Based on 20-year averages, in a regular year the N.W.T. experiences about 245 fires affecting 570,000 hectares of land, and the firefighting budget is about $7.5 million. But during the summer of 201…
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Sun 03 Jul 2022
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