This Day in Weather History
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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 stri...
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December 29 - Victoria BC: "Snowstorm of the Century"
In Victoria, Canada’s so-called ‘Snow-free city’, 65cm fell on Dec. 29th, breaking the city’s all-time 24-hour record of 55cm from 1916. As a result ,...
December 28 - Definitely NOT the ‘Summer of 69’
This storm had it all! It had the record snow accumulations, it had the a damaging ice storm, it had the and flooding rains….and it even included a to...
December 27 - “Weather and Flight”: Holiday Tragedy
Bek Air Flight 2100 was a Fokker 100 domestic passenger plane on a scheduled flight from Almaty to Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, on December 27th, 2019. It...
December 26 - The Greatest Tennis Match Ever is Almost SNOWED OUT!
It was a record-breaking snowfall that began on Christmas Day and crippled the northeastern United States to a literal standstill. We had automobiles...
December 25 - Christmas Day Special
Regardless of overall impact, anything that gets in the way or makes this day more beautiful is amplified exponentially in its scope and reverence. To...
December 24 - Christmas on the Moon with Apollo 8
This mission is also known as the trip that made possible the iconic "Earthrise" image, seen and revered still to this day the world over. It was snap...
December 23 - "Weather and War": The 1775 "Snow Campaign"
It was called the "snow campaign" because the soldiers and fighters had a very tough time getting anything accomplished, including not getting killed,...
December 22 - A Great Escape with a Monumental Discovery!
It was on a Thursday, this December 22nd, when Janssen’s story opened like a Hollywood thriller. France was in the grips of the Franco-Prussian War an...
December 21 - It Was Only The FIRST Day of Winter!
December 2008 was a particularly active month in Ontario for severe weather, to say the least...this day in weather history.
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December 20 - Most Destructive Storm in BC Hydro History
It is still considered right now to have been the most damaging storm in B.C. Hydro’s history. At its peak, it was reported that over 750,000 customer...
December 19 - "The Nightmare Before (During & After) Christmas"
We had: a full-on winter storm with heavy snow, strong winds, blowing and drifting and white outs. We also had a legit crippling ice storm and, just t...
December 18 - “Weather and War”: Killer Cobra
Typhoon Cobra was first observed on December 17 when it surprised a fleet of ships in the open waters of the western Pacific Ocean. It packed sustaine...
December 17 - The FIRST Ever Flight at Kittyhawk
So it was set and the day arrived; initial flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. Three more flights were made that day with Wilbur Wright pil...
December 16 - The Holiday Season Tornado Terror
Most of the tornadoes were reported in Mississippi, with several striking Louisiana. The 3 fatalities happened in Louisiana and Alabama, while injurin...
December 15 - Weather and War: "The Battle of Fredericksburg"
We have covered a couple of Civil War stories on this podcast already. How the weather plays into war settings is incredibly intriguing; it isn't enou...
December 14 - The Car Ship Crash That Kept Crashing
he French authorities ordered the wreck to be removed, as it was perceived to represent a danger to shipping and the environment. Yet somehow TWO more...
December 13 - When Time Stopped Dead on Highway 402
In all, 600 travellers were stranded for as long as 48 hours on southwestern Ontario’s highway 402 because of the extreme winter weather conditions th...
December 12 - When Sports Domes Don't Work
There were indeed, historically 5 Collapses in the history of this balloon roof in Minneapolis Minnesota, home of the MLB Twins and NFL Vikings at the...
December 11 - The Shocking WORST Ever Toronto Snowstorm
In all, twenty-one people died as a result of this snow storm that levelled 57 cm or "twenty-two and one-half inches" of snow on the city in a single...
December 10 - Weather and War: "The Red Cross"
World War One had been raging for 3 years by 1917. During this time the Norwegian Nobel Committee held firm that NO peace prize would be awarded so lo...
December 9 - The Deadly California Thomas Fire
The blaze started fast and moved even quicker; reaching the city of Ventura, where in the span of one night, over five hundred residences were destroy...
December 8 - The Freeway Pileup That Covered 3 States!
December 8th...2016...this day in weather history; we had one storm, resulting in 3 major pileups in 3 different states, with 2 happening on the same...
December 7 - The Tornado that Tangled with London England
On the morning of December7th, 2006, the UK was being walked over by a deep and strong Atlantic low pressure system. Along its path, it injured 6 peop...
December 6 - Lucan Ontario Buried Beneath 5 1/2 FEET of Snow
At the time local radio stations were announcing the storm, like I said, as a “Snowmageddon”, a cute play on the mix of snow and armageddon. It was cu...
December 5 - 1000mm Deluge Drowns Southern Thailand
According to the Thai Meteorological Department’s Automatic Weather Station (AWS), over 500 millilitres of rain fell over a 7-day period starting on D...
December 4 - The 1952 Killer Smog of England
This story was a featured in the hit television series The Crown. The Great Smog is the central event of season 1, episode 4 on the popular Netflix pr...
December 3 - The 2012 Super Typhoon Bopha (Pablo)
After being devastated in December of 2011by the Tropical Storm ‘Washi”, Super Typhoon Bopha made landfall on Mindanao, late on December 3, as a Categ...
December 2 - The 1952 Grey Cup: "The Fog Bowl"
It was to be celebrated as the 50th Grey Cup Championship. It was played in 1962, in Toronto at an outdoor stadium, that laid right along the shores o...
December 1 - The 10-Car Ohio Train Derailment Disaster
For the storm to create so much chaos that Ten train cars went off their tracks in the middle of a busy day in Ohio, this was a storm that needed to b...
November 30 - FIRST Human in History Struck by Meteorite
Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges, who was asleep on her living room couch at the time the object came crashing into and through her house. Normally we hear of me...
November 29 - The Deadly Black Friday Dust Storm on the I-5
It was a Black Friday that much is true but this disaster left 17 people dead and 114 injured in a series of chain-reaction accidents. The California...
November 28 - It Was The Wreck of the SS Mataafa
THIS storm, named after the Mataafa wreck, was responsible for damaging or totally destroying about 29 vessels, killing 36 and causing shipping losses...
November 27 - The 1977 Grey Cup "Ice Bowl"
The blizzard of 1977 hit western New York as well as southern Ontario from January 28 to February 1. Daily winds gusted over 110km/h (up to 70 mph). S...
November 26 - The Weather "Sacked" the Steelers vs Dolphins on "MNF"
Lightning and heavy rain opened up early and pushed back the start of the game by 25 minutes at the Steeler’s home park Heinz Field, in Pittsburgh. Th...
November 25 - The 1950 "Mud Bowl" Grey Cup
November 25th, 1950 and this was the Canadian football championship game played between the Toronto Argonauts and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. The Grey...
November 24 - That Craaaaazy November Wind!
At the height of the windstorm, Toronto Hydro said approximately 10,000 customers were without power in the west and north end of the city. While acro...
November 23 - A Record Snow for Labrador!
A monstrous 75 cm of snow fell in just one single event all over Happy Valley-Goose Bay. And with that, they had officially accumulated more snow than...
November 22 - The First Ever NHL Regulation Outdoor Game
Live from Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton Alberta, this first-time event featured two of Canada’s most legendary dynastic teams: the Edmonton Oilers...
November 21 - The 2018 California "Camp" Fire
The fire was fast to start and even faster to spread. It originated above several communities but when the winds oscillated due east, that then drove...
November 20 - The 2014 CanAm Lake Effect Wipeout
Snowfall rates of 2 to 4 inches (5-10cm)/hour = an average of a foot to a foot and half of snow within this band leading up to daybreak Friday. A fata...