This Day in Weather History: Recent Episodes
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"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"!
Today is a special longer-length episode where we will look back at how this all came to be and what goes into the production of a podcast. Especially one that deals with only weather and "weather adjacencies." and I'll explain whatever the hell that even means as well. Let's celebrate!!
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It was originally known as the Barrie Tornado given that they took by far the hardest hit and suffered the highest casualty numbers and they were the biggest city affected when compared to Grand Valley and Tottenham who also were beaten to a pulp by an F4 and suffered deaths as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
I will caution you up front that many of the details in today’s story are very troubling and therefore listener discretion is advised. "Vanport" is not a painful trigger word for so many because of any ghost story, or any calamitous disaster—that will be our primary story to come later; this town will forever have a dark cloud over its memory because of raw, unabashed racism.
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This shipwreck didn’t happen at sea, It was also not even on the sometimes deadly waters of Great Lakes and it also didn't even happen in stormy weather. May 29, 1914 the passenger ship The Empress of Ireland was traveling in the St. Lawrence river, off Rimouski, in the province of Quebec. However, at the same time and In the same waters was a Norwegian ship named the Storsdad. I think you can see where this is going. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Among the excited skywatchers were teams of scientists and volunteers who stood ready to document a variety of atmospheric conditions with the hope of advancing meteorological science. They not only had a perfect location but they forecast an area with ideal weather conditions for viewing the eclipse along much of its incredible over 1500KM track!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The City of Toronto deployed more than 45,000 sandbags, 1,000 metre bags, and more than a dozen industrial pumps to try to control and in any way lessen the effects of the rising water. But now there were reports surfacing of water coming up through the ground inland from any shoreline. Land liquefaction!! This was getting real bad, real fast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The plane pitched and rolled violently as it ran into this severe inter-cloud turbulence with huge hailstones pounding the exterior. One passenger said that it felt like a showering of bullets and then came a mighty thump. What hit this plane? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
One of those hit by a bolt at this picnic was Florida high school student Ernie Perez. He was thankful to be alive after being struck down by a lightning bolt during a family picnic, leaving him with those tell-tale fascinating burn marks on his neck and shoulder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This was the first tornado widely documented by science as part of a storm chasing field research. You heard me right, this started the Storm Chasers!! This was out of Norman, Oklahoma where they placed teams of storm chasers around it to capture its life cycle on film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Timmins 9 grew to 39,524 hectares, resulting in the evacuations of areas around both Timmins and Gogama. Evacuations had also been underway in Kirkland Lake as well. This was the largest wildfire this area had experienced in decades. But again, it was closing in on city centres so it was now national headlines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tornadoes are fierce and unpredictable. Chasers know this all too well. Especially those who came back with research and images from the EF5 that crushed Joplin Missouri in 2001 and those 200 MPH winds literally picked up the air-lift helicopter and blew it away on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The rain had started light in the early evening but much heavier bands set in fast and downtown had a storm of walnut sized hail unleashed on them. But then at 5:45 p.m. an F4 rated Tornado hit Sarnia straight on! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today’s story is as shocking for the sheer devastation of property as it is because of its toll on human life. This was to be a storm that would prove to be bigger than anyone could have feared; from the moment of that first alert, there was a watch or warning of some type in effect somewhere in the NWS Norman county warning area for what would go on to be nearly 30 hours straight!!!
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The Dark Day, as it is known, happened on May 19, way back in the year 1780 in New England...as well as the eastern parts of an English territory that would one day come to be known as Canada. Midway through the morning of this day in weather history, the sky turned a creepy jaundice-yellow. Animals began to run for cover and the darkness started to overtake the land. By noon, it was night. What Happened? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was on the morning of May 18, this day in weather history, when Mount St. Helens was shaken by an earthquake of about 5.0 magnitude, and the entire north side of the summit began to slide down the mountain. The giant landslide of rock and ice, one of the largest recorded in history, was followed by and then actually overtaken by an enormous explosion of steam and volcanic gases, which surged northward along the ground at high speed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Faraz Qeshm Airlines Yak-40, suddenly found itself flying through what had become rapidly deteriorating weather conditions. The rain got real heavy real fast, but then it was struck by a bolt of lightning that was suspected to have possibly knocked out its navigational equipment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It came from three scientists from the British Antarctic Survey who made the chilling announcement of what they had found. This discovery became a look into the mirror for all humans of its ability to damage the Earth's atmosphere. But in the decades that have followed, this near extinction level event, became one of the most famous success stories in the history of climate activism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The season overall was already awake as we had already registered one tropical cyclone but this was the first hurricane of 1951, and seeing as how the letter A opens up the alphabet, we had a storm named Able. Later, on May 22, Hurricane Able reached its peak wind speeds for its lifespan when it hit 90 mph (150 km/h) about 70 miles (115 km) off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
There were only 5 more weeks to go to the first official day of Summer! On Wednesday, May 14, back in 1986, a very late season snowstorm made its way through Calgary that overwhelmed most of southern Alberta. The freak storm caused power lines to fall, there were power outages associated with that, plus the roads were a disaster with poor driving conditions, and it closed schools! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This was confirmed by Environment Canada as Ontario's first tornado of the 2014 season! This outbreak was seen long in advance and it was warned by Canada’s Governing Body for weather and climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
They called it the Great Miami Tornado of 1997, but that was really, a bit of a stretch. It was an F1 tornado, so people in Oklahoma and Kansas were likely reading about it in the next days paper, thinking “oh how adorable”. It showed up like a proper Miami celebrity. It made possible some of the most haunting pictures which actually became the subject of worldwide media coverage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
That year, a severe drought spread across the region. Crops were scorched and withered and died. And as that spread like a virus to the entire Great Plains collection of States, wind began to carry dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed lands. The over-plowed and abused land was too weak to recover and there was no rain so it was hopeless. It was so intense and so dangerous that it forced thousands of families from Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas and New Mexico to uproot and migrate to California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this onslaught, there were over 60 tornadoes! Some of these twisters were large and multi-vortex in nature, meaning they had several centres of rotation within one massive system of rotation. Think tornadoes within tornadoes!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On Thursday May 9th, 2019, this version of their outdoor commencement service got walloped with up to 3 inches of snow, over 7.5 cm of snow on that field, on that day and on those 20,000+ people in Boulder at the University of Colorado. This is one of my favorite episodes of this podcast!
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This system caused multiple wind gusts that averaged around 70 mph (over 110kph) with other incidents reported of isolated gusts clocking over 90 mph (145kph) along its destructive path. On the ground, the wind storm produced significant and often fiercely continuous pounding that spread damage over a far reaching stretch that spanned the high plains of western Kansas through the foothills of the Appalachians in eastern Kentucky. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On May 7, 1902, Martinique’s Mount Pelée began the deadliest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. The complacency of the citizens played a role in the massive loss of life. When It hit, it hit hard. The following day, the city of Saint Pierre, which I can attest to, lives up to its billing as “the Paris of the Caribbean”, was wiped off the map.
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On May 4, 2017, a massive storm rolled through the valley, bringing so much rain that Mill Creek spilled its banks and nearby homes and businesses were flooded. As a result of this, on may 6th, a state of emergency was called for Kelowna and West Kelowna. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From the Peterborough (England) Chronicle on May 5, 1110: "On the fifth night of the month of May the moon appeared shining brightly in the evening, and afterwards his light waned by little and little, and early in the night he was so wholly gone that neither light, nor circle, nor anything at all of him was to be seen, and thus it continued till near day, and then he appeared shining full and bright ; he was a fortnight old the same day : the sky was very clear all the night, and the stars shone very brightly all over the heavens, and the fruit trees were greatly injured by that night's frost." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On May 4th, at about 10:45 p.m., part of a town near Saguenay, Quebec dropped 30 metres. The crater it cut out was 300 metres across and more than 30 metres deep. It created a deep channel through which a river of liquefied clay flowed, and it swallowed 30 homes, 15 cars and a bus!! A total of 31 people were killed, most of whom were trapped in their swallowed homes or cars.
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On May 3, the fire swiftly blew through Fort McMurray and that prompted the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history, with upwards of 88,000 people forced from their homes all of a sudden. The scenes were chaotic. There were very well coordinated escape caravans but the fire was swallowing up routes as fast as they were being designated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On May 1, the Ottawa River crested 30 cm above 2017’s peak flood levels. As an immediate response to this, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson issued a State of Emergency on April 25. It was lifted on June 12. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
They are Canada’s authoritative source for severe-weather alerts and weather, water, ice, and climate data. As a matter of fact, in times of crises that cause enough of a stir for it to be remembered as a memorable day in weather history their team of meteorologists and hydrologists work around the clock to monitor and predict hazards like the two flooding stories I just presented to you on this podcast yesterday in Manitoba and the day before in Quebec. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The amount of water that this spring unleashed on the areas lining the river in this valley back in the spring of 1997 was enough for it to be labeled “The Flood Of The Century”! This covered over 2 thousand 500 square kilometres of land -- in water -- and that forced the evacuation of a staggering 28,000 people.
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By the next day, April 30th, 2019... 9,070 homes and 273 businesses were flooded, and as a result there were now 12,000 people displaced. In the area affected, we also had 82 landslides linked to the flooding as well as the roads and highways I mentioned in the intro. In total, there were 310 municipalities across Quebec that were affected by the flooding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The hailstones ballooned to 2.75" (7cm) diameter which we term “baseball sized”. THIS system starting pitching baseball sized hail all around, before it crossed the Missouri River into St. Louis County. Meanwhile, about 100 people were injured and one person was killed when a tent collapsed on a crowd that was gathered outside Busch Stadium after a Cardinals game at a nearby sports bar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On Sunday, April 27, 2008, residents of Fort Albany, a First Nations community primarily made up of women and children, were forced to flee what were now the worst floods since 1985. Because of the rapid ice breakup on the river they now had mighty ice flows racing down stream at a force that burst through the dikes, thrusting river water up, over and on to the mainland of the reserve where the 900 residents lived. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This outbreak would go on to result in 21 people being killed, 17 of which were from the Andover tornado. But the Wichita-Andover tornado was actually the 3rd in a series of 4 tornadoes that pushed through South Central KS. F5 damage also occurred across the southern part of Andover where large frame homes were demolished. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the avalanche a cascade of snow, ice and rock raced down the mountain, through the populated area known as “base-camp” and in it at least twenty-two people were killed. This made this event the new deadliest disaster on the mountain. The 7.8 magnitude quake would be blamed for the death of more than 5,000 people, and the injuries suffered by an additional 10,000 people.
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Floods have been part of recorded history in New Brunswick for over 300 years. They date back as far as 1696, when the first written record told of a late, very high spring water level that delayed crop planting for the residents of a small French settlement at Jemseg. In 2018, The Saint John river overflowed its banks and water levels crested to over 27 feet (8 ¼ meters) in Fredericton by May 1. The rush of water closed 50 streets in the city and forced hundreds of residents from their homes.
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On Monday, Apr. 23, 1962, NASA launched the Ranger 4 into space. The Ranger 4 spacecraft, was especially designed to collect data on interplanetary space, but more to the point it was to photograph the moon up close and make a rough landing on the lunar surface, this was for reconnaissance for a future manned mission there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was the brainchild of Wisconsin Senator, Gaylord Nelson who was an unabashed environmentalist whose hope was that by creating a lightning rod of attention he could create a rallying unity to grassroots environmental awareness. We can dream all we want of living on other planets but until we become a totally different species of human, dreaming is as far as we will ever get so let’s make sure we make the best of it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Legendary Dodger Stadium was built on top of the historic Los Angeles neighbourhood of Chavez Ravine in Solano Canyon. Get this, before the start of their 1976 season, the Dodgers were rained out only once, and that was against the St. Louis Cardinals, on April 21, 1967, ending a streak of 737 consecutive games without a postponement at that time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On the 19th, there were seventeen F2 or greater tornadoes that touched down and that included a jaw-dropping ten in the state of Illinois alone. In Canada, the first tornado that touched down hit the ground running for a staggering 40 kilometres southeast of Owen Sound. A second tornado then touched down farther south and ripped for a 60 kilometre track from Arthur to just southwest of Barrie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This was a multi alarm fire involving a total of 17 fire halls, two engine companies and one hose company. They came from stations as far away as Hamilton, Ontario, and Buffalo, New York, to help save Toronto. The glow of the fire could be seen for miles in all directions and it took close to nine hours to get under control. A mystery still surrounds this tale because they never did establish the exact cause of the fire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A twister touched down in a rural area locally and packed powerful 135 to 167 km/h wind speeds. It was now historical as the first to be recorded as an Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale tornado in Canadian history. And it was rated EF1.
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In some areas, after the full series, there was reported to have been as much as 175 cm of snow. What is that to you and me? That is also known as 5 feet 9 inches of snow!! Because these storms hit while we were getting later into April, many cattle were already out in the pastures. This was a big problem when you consider over 51/2 feet of snow and the obvious sustained cold that would have accompanied such an event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The entrance to the CN Tower and to the Rogers Centre were promptly closed and a section of sidewalk out front of the affected buildings was also closed off for all pedestrian traffic. The Rogers Centre was far from the only building to have been damaged in this, however. Damage from the ice was also reported to other surrounding buildings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Denver Post reported that, with a total snowfall of almost a foot, along with around 45mm of mixing, of which it was primarily rain, it was reported that the April 14-15 storm was the second worst April blizzard since 1885. Because of the strong winds, the snow drifted to a depth of 7 feet (over 2 meters) in many parts of the metro. The storm was the worst in 5 years at Colorado Springs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Following a frost alert on April 14, winemakers of Chassagne-Montrachet lit fires and heaters to fight the frost. As temperatures then dropped moderately below that 32 F threshold, with a relatively low humidity, luckily damage was limited. Yet, winemakers trying to limit frost damage on their vines employ a variety of heating techniques to keep their crops warm. Some got "inventive". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was widespread and it was deadly, the Easter weekend tornado outbreak that brutalized the Southeast US. Several tornadoes were ultimately responsible for triggering tornado emergency declarations, including the very first of its kind to be issued by the National Weather Service in Charleston, South Carolina. Throughout the two-day outbreak, a total of 140 tornadoes touched down across 10 states, causing widespread and locally catastrophic damage.
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The initial launch date was scheduled for April 10, 1981 and with the first launch of the Space Transportation System (STS), better known as the "space shuttle". The shuttle was humankind's first reusable spacecraft. The orbiter would launch like a rocket and land like a plane. The STS-1 crew consisted of Commander John W. Young and Pilot Bob Crippen.
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Aboard were astronauts James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert and Fred W. Haise. In the Hollywood film Tom Hanks portrayed Jim Lovell, Bill Paxon played Fred Haise and Kevin Bacon was John Swigert. Apollo 13, was to be the third lunar landing mission and all went well at the launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tropical Cyclone Olivia bore down on tiny Barrow Island, just off the coast of western Australia in April 1996. In this system was embedded a smaller-scale circulation within Olivia's eye-wall that produced five extreme 3-second wind gusts, the peak of which was a 253 mph gust on April 10!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
They would be known as the Mercury 7, all military test pilots, and carefully selected from a group of 32 candidates to take part in Project Mercury, America’s first manned space program. In January 1959, NASA began the astronaut selection procedure, screening the records of 508 military test pilots and choosing 110 candidates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
At close to 10:30 in their morning this normally would have been mass chaos and the loss of life would have been staggering. Helicopter surveillance views of the area showed where sections of the bridge crossing the river Magra had fallen to the water, buckling a stretch of road behind it. This route was finished.
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It was a three day event that produced significant rainfall that then led to flooding across parts of Eastern Canada. The majority of the damage was in Eastern Ontario and Quebec. The high water levels blurred the lines between rivers and land. Following the heavy rains, strong wind gusts downed trees and power lines across many areas of both provinces. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Between April 5-6, this day in weather history, thousands of swallows and swifts that had been migrating from Africa to Europe died in flight due to exceptionally strong winds in Greece, that they had to pass through on their migratory route north during the spring. The Greek wildlife protection group Anima, reported that the birds were being found dead on streets and apartment balconies in the Greek capital city of Athens, on the Aegean Islands and near the seaport of Nauplia in the Peloponnese. It was a sad total wipeout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It’s a fairly well-known fact that the Pacific Northwest isn’t in the conversation normally when discussing a “tornado alley”. In today’s event, there were 4 at once which is immediately unusual, but this outbreak was packing a deadly F3 tornado that struck Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. The last time a tornado of F3 strength occurred here was June 3, 1894. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This was the first tornado outbreak in recorded history to produce more than 100 tornadoes within a 24-hour period. And that would not ever be bested for another 37 years in the US until the 2011 Super Outbreak. The 1974 outbreak caused widespread and extensive damage that spanned approximately 900 sq mi (2,331 km2) as it travelled a total combined path length of 2,600 mi (4,184 km)..It caused an estimated $843 million in 1974 USD which roughly translates to $4.58 billion in 2019...and over 2/3s of that was in the US alone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The 1974 Windsor tornado still stands as the 6th deadliest tornado in Canadian history. On this day it killed 9 people while injuring dozens more. It has also come to be remembered for the extensive toll it took on life and infrastructure, especially to the Windsor Curling Club on Central Avenue.
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This 1957 twister was rated F3 which again is not even close to the most powerful of its kind to set off across the US South, but it was downtown Dallas where basically everyone at the time lived in the state, relatively speaking. It was observed and later confirmed that 574 structures were damaged, including close to 154 homes and up to 28 apartment buildings that were completely destroyed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The investigation into the case of the accident that took place, later revealed it was human error; the pilot failed to operate the anti-ice system properly. Alan Dennis Kulwicki who was known by his peers as "Special K" and the "Polish Prince", was not just the driver; he was also a team owner. Kulwicki won at the 1992 Winston Cup Championship and the headlines the next day was all about how that was then the closest margin of victory in NASCAR history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 1889, and the French Government wanted to commemorate the 100 years since the French Revolution with an international exposition. As it’s centrepiece, there was a design competition for a grand monument to be built on the Champ-de-Mars in central Paris. It had only just been completed in 1889, and it was already set for demolition in 1909....but the study of weather saved it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On the night of March 29th, and in one of the most incredible stories to emerge from this event, hundreds of locals picked up lit torches and decided that it would be pretty cool to walk across the floor of the Niagara River along the brink that is normally the drop off to the Horseshoe and American Falls!! I am not kidding you, this really happened!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
the plane touched down more than 300 metres short of a Halifax runway and smashed through an antenna array before finally skidding to a stop. This passenger jet liner then proceeded to knock through a power line, which cut power to the airport. The aircraft then climbed an embankment up to the runway level, skidded on its belly and stopped 570 metres (1,870 ft) past the stopping line. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On March 28, of 2000 it was during the evening hours when a powerful F3 tornado struck Downtown Fort Worth, Texas, causing major and in some cases irreparable damage to several buildings and high-rises and claimed the lives of two people. According to the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), a baseball-size hailstone actually falls at a speed comparable to an actual baseball thrown from a major league pitcher - near 100 mph. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Releasing about 500 years of stress buildup, this event tore the earth wide open and triggered tsunamis. Six hundred miles (970 km) of fault ruptured all at once and moved up to 60 ft (18 m). Anchorage sustained some of the greatest destruction and damage but it was in large part due to an infrastructure that was simply not reinforced for earthquakes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Weather Network's Chief Meteorologist Chris Scott and "Storm Hunter", Mark Robinson were sent to Grand Etang, Nova Scotia to experience and report on the ferocious "Les Suetes" winds. The two meteorologists remarked how they were likely witnessing the most extreme weather in the entire world at that moment, but this would be a harbinger of things to come for them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The blowing sand and dust messed up military operations by driving down visibility and getting into the highly sophisticated parts of precision weapons systems. The storm, known locally as a turab, came screaming into Baghdad from behind the coalition forces. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
March 24th, 1996, U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid transferred to the Russian space station Mir from the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for a planned five-month stay. Lucid was the first female U.S. astronaut to live in a space station. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
They used to talk about the legendary 1862 flood of the Salinas River. But that legend was replaced when in this storm, the river exceeded its previous measured record crest by more than four feet or 1 and a quarter meters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Prior to this tragic day, there had been weeks of heavy rain. But what no one could have predicted was that a massive, fast-moving wall of mud and debris would suddenly come crashing down the hillside like a runaway freight train, rolling over and destroying 49 homes claiming the lives of 43 souls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A well respected climatologist out of the United States called this March 2012 heatwave (quote) “the most extraordinary temperature anomaly in North American history”; this heat dome covered 2-thirds of all of North America! It was the Spring Equinox yet this last day of winter resembled something closer to a midsummer day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Denver International Airport was closed and that stranded about 4,000 travellers. The weight of the snow caused a 40-foot or 12 meter gash in a portion of the roof, forcing the evacuation of that section of the main terminal building. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In BC in 2019, things were already wrecked; January was well above seasonal, February then went brutally cold and as for March, it was threatening to rewrite the record books for drought. One of the hottest spots in the province was in Pitt Meadows as they hit a staggering 19.5C.; and that broke a record that had stood for 7 decades!! In Chilliwack, an almost 125-year-old record was erased! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This outbreak killed 695 people, injured some 13,000 people, and caused $17 million in property damage. More than 500 of the total 695 people who perished were killed in southern Illinois, including 234 in Murphysboro and 127 in West Frankfort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Two things you normally do not associate with the Aloha State are tornadoes and St. Patrick’s day. But Two tornado warnings were issued in the Hawaiian Islands on this day. So this occurrence of 2 tornado warnings on the Big Island was so unusual primarily because there had only ever been 2 tornado warnings ever for the state as long as record keeping began.
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Almost to the day, back in 1948 was the previous mark for the earliest tornado in the province. It was on a march 19th in Windsor. So it took 68 years for this record mark to come off the board. This tornado registered EF1 and hit at about 10 minutes to 4pm in Grey Country Ontario. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This historic flooding was one of the costliest U.S. inland flooding events on record and it included and Air Force Base in Nebraska. In the end, this 2 week deluge of disaster caused $2.9 billion in total damages, split between 2 States the most affected: $1.6B in the Hawkeye state of Iowa and $1.3B in Cornhusker Nation, Nebraska. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The National Weather Service had issued a tornado warning for the Atlanta area at 9:26 p.m. that night after radar showed the signatures of a storm capable of producing tornadoes. And this was registering on the map about six miles west of Atlanta. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The wind was a total erasing of the previous mark; in this storm a gust of 80 mph ( almost 130kph) was measured around noon mountain time on the 13th while heavy snow was falling. The deepest Low pressure of 979.01mb bested the previous city's old record-low pressure of 979.9 millibars set on Feb. 25, 1998. And the wind gust broke the old record for highest non-thunderstorm wind gust that was only 63 mph set 10 years prior to this in 2009. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As a result of this storm and its powerful wind, 10-year-old Vancouver Island boy, Laken Platt, was lucky to be alive after he became trapped beneath a tree that fell onto his house!! He is a junior gamer who, like all other kids his age is addicted to a screen while likely also wearing noise cancelling headphones, totally immersed in his game, no idea of his surroundings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began way back in the year 1900. This 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku was a magnitude 9.0–9.1 undersea "mega-thrust" earthquake, meaning simply that this is a powerful quake that happens at a very precarious spot on the planet’s crust; subduction zones at destructive convergent plate boundaries. And it took down a nuclear reactor plant.
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Finley would go on to write the first known book on the subject of the tornado as well as many other manuals and booklets. This event happened during what was the beginning of experimental tornado predictions on March 10th, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Early in the morning of March 9th, 1945, American B-29s dropped a flurry of bombs, including napalm and magnesium incendiaries, over the packed residential districts along the Sumida River in eastern Tokyo. This destroyed large portions of the capital while also killing 100,000 civilians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The rumbles of this mountain had increased with frequency and intensity and then it happened. There was not just one; there were several eruptions over the weeks that followed this day in weather history, killing more than 20,000 confused and unprepared people, leaving virtually everyone else homeless. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Along its path it wreaked havoc on the east coast of the United States with heavy rain, damaging winds and tornadoes, causing locally significant damage. The intensity and longevity of this monster resulted in at least 17 deaths across four US states and three Canadian provinces, but not by the snow, rather along the southernmost tail of the front in weather-related accidents and tornadoes.
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50 years before Sandy's devastation, the Great Atlantic Coastal Storm, from Mar 5 – 9, 1962, battered the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. This storm was particularly bad because it did not move for three days. In the end, the storm killed 40 people, injured over 1,000 more, destroyed 1,793 houses, and damaged another 16,782. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This is another tragedy that should have been prevented. Yes, another event where negligence led to a disaster. Only two seconds after takeoff, the aircraft started to shake violently. The plane rose to approximately 50 feet. Because they were essentially skimming the ground as it was, when they rolled to the right, the plane’s wing struck the end of the runway at a 90-degree angle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The crew consisted of a locomotive-driven rotary snowplow and 63 men. Time was critical as westbound CPR Train Number 97 was just entering the Rocky Mountains, bound for Vancouver. Half an hour before midnight as the track was nearly clear, an unexpected avalanche from Avalanche Mountain swept down the opposite side of the track to the first fall.
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Over six hours, tornadoes ranging from EF0 to EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, tore across Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina. This onslaught resulted in 23 deaths, and 103 injuries. Somehow, there among all the rubble, you will be stunned at how a tornado completely missed one home in the middle of hundreds of downed trees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As it ran into Anticyclone Hartmut dubbed the Beast from the East, Emma's warmer moisture laden air rode over the cold dry air that had been sitting over Western Europe for a few days. This combination of events led to heavy snowfall amounts of up to 57 centimetres (22 in) in many places, including the UK.
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Surrounding streets were closed including the Gardiner Expressway when, for the first time in its history, the worst fears had come true, the ice that had built up on the CN tower was now beginning to fall to the ground and onto the parked cars below. Thankfully no one was injured, especially when you consider that if these thick slabs of solid ice were falling from almost three quarters up the tower, that 415meters or 1360 FEET!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
If anyone would have seen the paralyzing sight of homes totally entombed in close to a meter of ice, they must have been thinking “Let it Go! Let it Go!”. Hoover Beach was the shoreline under the microscope here and a couple of those homeowners commented that they truly had a nightmare of a time with this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was officially termed “Very strong” in the nation’s capital city of Santiago where the majority of the country’s population is centered. During the twentieth century, Chile was rocked by no fewer than twenty-eight major earthquakes, all with a force greater than 6.9magnitude. During the twentieth century, Chile was rocked by no fewer than twenty-eight major earthquakes, all with a force greater than 6.9magnitude. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Those who were at the Colosseum had the rare opportunity of taking photographs of two rare sites at once; snow in Rome and the largest amphitheater ever built. Schools were closed but I gotta believe that this was done to allow the kids the chance to run and play in this anomaly. According to the UK Met Office, Rome has not had this kind of cold and snow since March of 2013”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The smoke from the burning oil wells billowed into the atmosphere and hung among the same water droplets that make up the clouds, so when that rain was released, it carried with it the crude that it blended with, resulting in the black rain. The rain, which fell in southeastern Turkey on February 25th, 1991, this day in weather history, blackened the hands and faces of people caught outside and stained their clothes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From February 22nd to 26th, 1982, a legit criteria-satisfying blizzard swept through Prince Edward Island bringing 60cm of snow, 100 kilometre an hour wind gusts and wind chills in the -35 Celsius range. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
February 23rd, this day in weather history: Typhoon Wutip reached its peak intensity, with 10-minute sustained winds of 195 km/h (120 mph), 1-minute sustained winds of 270 km/h (165 mph), while sweeping southwest of Guam, becoming the strongest February typhoon ever on record along the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The deadliest and most destructive of the 12 tornadoes hit in Kissimmee and St. Cloud, it produced near-F4 damage. Only two other tornadoes, both rated F4, in 1958 and 1966 produced more intense damage in Florida. In the final tally, 12 tornadoes touched down, one of which was a long hauler, running wild for nearly 30 miles (48 km). The first major, F3 tornado of the outbreak came at around 11:40 pm in Winter Garden, near Windermere in Orange County. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Here in Finland on this occasion, a few days before the event started, the temperatures reduced to below freezing. So the long tracks had to be modified unfortunately. In 37 years of this Ice Race, it was the first time weather had caused this much of a disaster to the details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The 1988 Winter Games, commonly remembered as Calgary '88, ran from February 13 to 28, 1988, mainly in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Funny thing about Calgary is it is known as much for its super mild chinook wind pattern as they are for snow and cold. So, which one showed up this day in weather history? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Whiteouts were the cause. Strong winds had blown snow off the St. Lawrence River, shutting down all visibility for the drivers. This motor vehicle melee shut down a kilometre stretch of Highway 15 on Montreal's South Shore, prompting a major emergency intervention. Of the 200 vehicles involved, 50 were able to drive away on their own, but many of the cars were simply and totally destroyed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Some background first. First of all we do not name winter storms in Canada. There once was a Hurricane named Juan, and it highlighted the Summer of 2003 for the Canadian Maritime Provinces. Because it was preceded by the officially named HURRICANE Juan in 2003, and given the impact of this in comparison, locals shared the name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The National Weather Service went on to say that it was the first tornado-ish event on record for New Mexico during the month of February. Furthermore, it was speculated that this was the first ever documented snow-tornado in the United States!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The official risks and warnings were for as much as 25 to 40 centimetres of snow in the Brockville and Cornwall areas, PLUS the likelihood of freezing rain and ice pellets near the St. Lawrence River. Meanwhile, the Ottawa Senators went ahead with their scheduled NHL regular season game against the Buffalo Sabres at the Canadian Tire Centre but they did warn fans that it’s awful out so please leave a lot of extra time if you are going to venture out in this. This is very similar to my January 22nd episode called “The 334 Club”; that played out for the New Jersey Devils. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This storm event was the most severe in terms of depth of and inundation of water that led to immense damages to the town. Over half the town of badger was under water. The large chunks of ice came in and smashed through windows and doors of some buildings. On February 15, 2003, the Red Cross was immediately called into action to provide for the needs of the over 1000 displaced people, many who escaped with only the clothing on their backs in the ice cold of winter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What’s the one thing the world stereotypes Canada for? It’s cold. So can anyone explain to me just how so many visitors who were in town for the NBA All-Star Game were blown away by the weather this weekend??? The frigid temperatures proved shocking for some stars; the late Kobe Bryant, who spent his entire career playing in the glare and the heat of the Southern California sun, actually and physically struggled to find words to describe the feeling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The smoke from the burning oil wells billowed into the atmosphere and hung among the same water droplets that make up the clouds, so when that rain was released, it carried with it the crude that it blended with, resulting in the black rain. Turkish scientists found the “smoking gun”when they tested the rain and found that it contained several substances present in Kuwaiti oil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The February 2007 North American blizzard was a massive winter storm that swept across and adversely affected most of the eastern half of North America, that ran for 3 days: February 12, Through the 14th, Valentine’s day. It was precedent setting as The National Weather Service said that this storm was one of the three largest snowstorms to hit the inland areas of the northeastern United States since way back in 1940.
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On February 12, 2006, this day in weather history...brutal weather was responsible for trapping and stranding five Yukon Quest mushers and their team on Eagle Summit. These racers and their teams were stuck on a mountain ledge, and their area for waiting it out is now knee deep in snow with the wind creating the bitterest of wind chills given that they are exposed at that elevation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Many people are familiar with the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. But, did you know that there was a Tuskegee Weather Detachment that played a role in producing the first black meteorologists? The Tuskegee Airmen were the first black military pilots in what was called the U.S. Army Air Corps (AAC), which would later merge into what we know today as the U.S. Air Force. This group were incredibly talented and their accomplishments earned them more than 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses, awarded to anyone who goes on to distinguish themselves by any single acts of heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Val d’sere, France has been part of the Alpine Skiing World Cup since the late 1960s and was the site for Alpine skiing competitions at the 1992 Winter games in Albertville, France. They played host to the men's downhill, super-giant slalom, giant slalom, and combined. But on this morning in weather history, there was a sudden and shuddering explosion-like sound and More than 100,000 cubic yards (76,500M) of snow crashed down from a treeless, 7,000‐foot (almost 2150M) crest known as Le Dome, rushed 700 yards(640M) across the Alpine source of Isere River, took out and swallowed a section of National Route 202, before smashing into and through the chalet.
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This nor'easter developed on February 8, and as it moved towards the northeast, intensifying to become a powerful storm, it unloaded a staggering 20in of snow (51 cm). The snow really amped up on the 9th. By 7 p.m on the 9th ten inches (25CM) had accumulated in the city. By midnight, 15 inches (almost 40cm) was levelled on Central Park, while a truly crippling 20 inches(51CM) stopped everything at Kennedy Airport. The entire Northeast was covered under mountains of snow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Great Saskatchewan Blizzard of 1947 hit an area where families were still getting to know each other after returning from World War 2. There were also populations of displaced residents from Great Britain who were moved to the Canadian Prairies as a result of the devastating blitzkrieg bombing of their country back home. Single mothers and fatherless children all still trying to put pieces together again in land so beautiful but a land that winter loves to beat up on every year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Manitoba’s Highway 75, is part of what is termed “Canada's National Highway System”; it is also part of a network of highways and rail lines that makes up the “International Mid-Continent Trade Corridor” that connects to cities in central regions of North America. If this gets shut down it is BIG $$$ lost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The snowfall was nonstop for 24 hours; and when the taps turned off, these GTA locations were buried under huge accumulation totals:
25 cm in downtown Toronto,
30 cm in Markham,
33 cm at Pearson Airport,
40-50 cm in Mississauga, and
50 cm in Milton.
This has since been eclipsed by the January 17, 2022 storm and that story will be in our 2022 Year in review and then the January 17, 2023 episode of this podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The full picture of the impact of this series of catastrophic events would unfold and it was far greater than anyone could have imagined when it happened this day in weather history. In all, 22 out the country’s 34 provinces were reported to have been affected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We’ve covered this before, there are areas in BC that are simply not known for appreciable amounts of snow and for that reason people from around Canada will relocate there to avoid it. It was a “Storm To Remember”. The storm caused tens of thousands of outages across the South Coast over the February 4th and 5th weekend.
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This happened 12 years before Al Roker started as a weather anchor for a CBS affiliate in Syracuse. Dianne Elizabeth Johnson was born in St. Louis, Missouri on Dec. 28, 1938. She was the daughter of Milton and Nettie Johnson and a descendant of a Civil War general’s slave mistress. There was an actual audition process for the weather girl job at KSD in St. Louis. As a matter of fact, among the many competitors was a woman by the name of Mary Frann who was another St. Louis native, but it was also Mary Frann would go on to play Bob Newhart’s wife on his hit 1980s sitcom, “Newhart.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was 2 features that combined for this tour de force that blanketed this massive area of North America. There was a surface and a supporting upper level feature that merged in this one. This one-two punch combined the power of the "Saskatchewan Screamer" vs that of the "Southwest Desert Destroyer"!! (Ding! Ding!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On February 1st, 2003, 17 years and 3 days since the Challenger was lost with all of her crew 73 seconds after lift-off, the world was blind-sided when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere, killing all seven crew members. To help out with specialized perspective, I am joined by: Scott Sutherland, Space Writer and Meteorologist, theweathernetwork.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The earthquake immediately triggered a destructive tsunami that claimed the souls of 500 people who were along the coast of Colombia. This was not the only event of this kind that century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The City of Boston set sail from Halifax, Nova Scotia for Liverpool on 28 January Se was commanded by Captain Halcrow with 191 people on board. But the SS City of Boston never reached her final destination and there has never been any trace of her since. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Just some of the destruction that you'll hear about in the full podcast: The destruction:
Hurricane-force winds destroyed billions of board-feet of timber across the Olympic Peninsula.
Over 40 percent of the trees on the southwest side of the Olympic Mountains were blown down.
**The Great Olympic Blowdown felled eight times more trees than the eruption of Mount St. Helens back on March 27, 1980!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This was as much a Canada story as it was a US story. But the worst of it did definitely hit Western NY. Through the 5 days of this, there were daily peak wind gusts ranging from 74 to 111 km/hr. Snowfall totals were as high as 254 cm in the worst hit areas!! And we had winds creating drifts blowing 30 to 40 ft (9 to 12 m) high.
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Niagara Falls! It has been the honeymoon capital of the world on and off for centuries. Royalty have stayed there, rockstars, movie stars and other elite. The bridge was an international passage that connected Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, with Niagara Falls, New York, United States that crossed the Niagara River. It was originally built back in 1897 and it was finished in 1898. At that time it was the greatest steel arch bridge in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Important to note that the previous record snowfall for the city was 19 inches (48cm) on March 25th and 26th, of 1930. So to beat it by a clear 10cm is really something!! This storm had it all: wind, snow and even a thunderstorm! Desperate for places to put the stuff, they dumped it in any vacant lot they could find...then something truly warm and wonderful happened..... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
16 countries gathered to compete in sports like figure skating, speed skating, hockey, curling and a whole lot more. But the opening ceremonies were on this day in weather history. On the morning of the Opening Ceremony, there was a huge lift of relief, because it had been pairing rain for days leading up to this day, not good at all for a site that needs to be covered in snow. It was looking pretty dire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The city of Belo Horizonte, host of 2014 World Cup soccer matches, saw 171 mm (6.7 in) of rainfall within a 24-hour period between the 23–24 January; this blew away a record that had stood for 110 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
One of the most bizarre side stories of this winter storm is that, one month prior, because of the effects of El Nino, the eastern US experienced one of the warmest end of December on record. From January 22nd to 24th, 2016, a crippling and historic blizzard that produced up to 3 ft (91 cm) of snow in parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast United States. It was immediately recognized as a "potentially historic blizzard". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The game between the Calgary Flames and the New Jersey Devils on Jan. 22, 1987 wasn't expected to be a historic affair. But when close to two feet of snow dropped in on the tri-state area, it actually paved the way for what turned into one of the most unusual evenings in the history of the National Hockey League. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
They normally only see 33 tornadoes per year...and even at that, they normally occur in the spring. It broke a record for a tornado outbreak in January. It lasted 46 hours. The whole thing took place from January 21st through the 23rd and affected all of the mid-western and southern USA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we cover the:
1961 Kennedy Inauguration, known as either “The January 1961 nor'easter” or “The Kennedy Inaugural Snowstorm”?
1841 William Henry Harrison Inauguration where the weather played a role in the day and how long he stayed in office, sadly.
1853 Franklin Pierce Inauguration that led to another fatality.
1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt Inauguration that should have, and could have, but was not, rained out.
1985 Ronald Reagan Inauguration that narrowly escaped disaster if not for the move to stage it indoors for the first time ever.
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The 2019–20 Australian bushfire season came to be known as Black Summer. The Black was a tip to the mood, and the colour of the land left behind by a blaze that was, at times, burning in every province on the Island Continent nation.
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Ice jams in New Brunswick are common but this year they were threatening to destroy the world's longest covered bridge. In this race against mother nature, authorities said a major jam had pushed ice to within two metres of the bottom of a 105-year-old bridge in Hartland, a town about 75 kilometres northwest of Fredericton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was speculated at the time that the St. John's Airport had in fact experienced its snowiest January on record with 166 cm recorded to that point. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A powerful wind and snow storm smashed into B.C.'s South Coast on January 15th that knocked out power in many regions but then that overnight the intensity faded but it was too late; on the 16th, we now had thousands of people in the Lower Mainland and on Vancouver Island in the dark.
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We were in WW1 still, and the planet was gripped by a deadly pandemic AND yet still in a North End neighbourhood of Boston, Massachusetts, a large storage tank filled with molasses burst and the effect was nothing short of a sticky soiled tsunami! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This story comes with decades of built up legend and a bit of myth mixed in. Did Mayor Mel Lastman make the right call when he brought in military assistance to help in that 1999 snow storm? You must understand, by this point, during the passage of just 11 days, Toronto had already received more than 100 centimetres of snow, and as it was expected to keep falling overnight, making it possibly the snowiest January in 200 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It hit seven occupied vehicles and destroyed 97 feet (30 m) of guard rail before eventually plunging through the winter ice and into the Potomac River. There were 79 people on board including 74 passengers and five crew members. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
An estimated three million people were affected by the quake, that equates to 20% of the nation's 10.4 million population at that time. One of the most horrifying facts from this January 12th earthquake story out of Haiti is that by January 24th, almost 2 weeks after the initial quake, there had been at least 52 aftershocks measuring 4.5 or greater!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Here are just some of the more noteworthy totals from those 2 days:
Toronto, measured at Pearson Airport reported 70mm of rain which I mentioned was a record after 59mm was reached.
Just to its north and still a densely populated area, King City registered 75.7mm
London where the Thames River swelled saw 72mm and that was a record.
Down the end of the highway 402 from London in Sarnia and they were hit with 63mm of rain and to their south, Windsor had a record setting 50mm.
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Blowing snow brought visibility to virtually 0 for several hours. All vehicle traffic was either ground to a stand-still or ordered to halt, as highways were closed. The poor to no visibility and strong winds, with worst gusts, shut down the airports in both Prince Albert and Saskatoon. And that left a lot of people with absolutely no way of getting anywhere by land or air. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It happened the morning of January 9, 2015, in freezing cold blustery conditions. At the time of the accident, it was reported by those involved that visibility was down to ZERO; total a white-out conditions. There was a semi leaking fuel AND in another transport there were Fireworks! Yes, 40,000 lbs. of commercial grade fireworks, right next to the blaze! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
An island in East Africa and Located in the Indian Ocean, nowhere on Earth sees heavier rainstorms than the tiny French island, Reunion Island. But NOTHING compared to this! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When you drive through the town of Allendale, you will notice its rugged yet quaint properties that make this wee town rather charming. What today you will not see is any evidence of the devastating F4 tornado that all but wiped Allendale of the state map in 1989. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Winters in Seattle can be rough, like Vancouver to its north, it can be rain soaked for much of the season. The Seattle NBA Super Sonics first competed in their home, the Coliseum, in 1966. It featured a poorly constructed roof that had a history of allowing rain to drip down and wet the floor during storms. Is it any wonder they moved to OKC eventually? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sadly by January 5th, 2007, third-busiest ski resort in Canada (after Whistler, B.C., and Tremblant, Quebec), Ontario’s largest ski resort, Blue Mountain, in Collingwood, was forced to lay-off 1,300 workers while they had to close down all ski operations in the middle of the winter season! It was the first time in the resort's 65-year history where they actually closed in a season for poor conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was a massive combination of five smaller successive ice storms in January 1998. But it came in and through like a train across a narrow track of land spanning most of eastern Canada and the north Atlantic of the US.
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They were sent there to find evidence that life either does or ever did exist on Mars, the rovers were to study the history of climate and water at sites on Mars where conditions had been speculated through research on Earth may once have been favourable to life.
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How exactly did that happen? It was paperwork. For 1955, we did not have the same instant access to data and communication we would have in the years that followed. This mix-up resulted in an "Alice in 1954 and 1955. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Happy New Year!!! I LIVE for New years Day...back in the past it was for college football bowl games but I lost interest when they took this one day event and spread it out over weeks and added games seemingly whenever a new sponsor wanted one. THEN The NHL did something amazing! They took from the experiments in the past with outdoor exhibition games and the already first successful Canadian Heritage Classic in Edmonton, and started what would be called the Winter Classic. Today I look back at: 2008 - Ralph Wilson Stadium, Orchard Park, New York: Pittsburgh Penguins and Buffalo Sabres. 2009 - Wrigley Field, Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Black Hawks vs Detroit Red Wings 2011 - Heinz Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh Penguins vs Washington Capitals 2012 - Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Flyers vs New York Rangers 2014 - The Big House, Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Detroit Red Wings vs Toronto Maple Leafs 2020 - Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Texas: Dallas Stars vs Predators
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We had The Barrie Tornado part 2 that shook the province of Ontario. We had epic snow for Newfoundland at the beginning of winter AND at the beginning of spring!! And "Beautiful British Colombia" dominated our attention from wire-to-wire this past year with record setting heat, fires, cost and then flooding. It was one hell of a year for Canada and I try to sum it up in 12 minutes right here, right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
I cover the day it was announced we hit the hottest day on earth. There was the hottest day ever in Europe. There was the blizzard warning for HAWAII!! There were freak rogue fires, snowstorms and a hurricane season on top of all that. It all here and it all happened just this year! Get ready for this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 , widespread power outages were reported. With all ground transportation stymied, the Victoria International Airport and the BC Ferry service to the mainland and surrounding Gulf Islands also ground to a standstill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 tornado outbreak!! Over the next 2 days, December 26 and 27, the storm's forward movement hit a blocking area of HIGH pressure and that brought its momentum to a crawl. It was the holiday storm that packed a massive knockout punch for everything it hit….this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 took off from Almaty International Airport, but didn’t get very far. There were 98 people on board that flight, of them 93 were passengers along with 5 crew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was a record-breaking snowfall that began on Christmas Day and crippled the northeastern United States to a literal standstill. We had automobiles and buses banked and stranded in the streets, the NYC subway service was ground to a halt.
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Regardless of overall impact, anything that gets in the way or makes this day more beautiful is amplified exponentially in its scope and reverence. Today are all stories from December 25th but sailing through the years starting way back in 1776 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 snapped by Anders and this image would give our 3 astronauts and all of humankind a new perspective on our home planet.
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It was called the "snow campaign" because the soldiers and fighters had a very tough time getting anything accomplished, including not getting killed, because of a very heavy snowfall. The “Snow Campaign of the Revolutionary War in 1775 opened December 23rd, and lasted a week, wrapping eventually on the 30th Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 and our hero made a harrowing escape from a German siege of Paris. But in 1870...how do you get away that fast? You take to the air, and he did, by flying in a hot air balloon to Algeria in an attempt to study a solar eclipse. Enter HELIUM!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On November 15th of this year I was flown to Ireland with this podcast to produce television segments and this podcast episode covering a huge day in human life; the winter solstice!
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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 customers lost power as a result of the storm. For perspective, the city of Vancouver has a population of only around 675,000!
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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 to make it almost comically impossible, this event also featured a tornado outbreak that impacted the central and eastern portions of Canada, parts of the Central Great Plains, the Southern United States, and the northeastern United States.
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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 sustained winds of up to 100 mph with gusts to 140 mph. But that is where our story only starts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 piloting the record flight lasting 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet. It was monumental! It was historical! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Most of the tornadoes were reported in Mississippi, with several striking Louisiana. The 3 fatalities happened in Louisiana and Alabama, while injuring people in several states, and damaging homes and churches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 enough that all sides are told that they want to kill each other but now they have to face a foe they have no control over. And in the case of theatres like the American civil war, they had no way of knowing what was coming.
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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 collisions happened with MV Tricolor in the days after the actual sinking. Here’s the thing; The Tricolor was carrying 2,862 cars, including BMW's, Volvos and Saabs. It was announced by the Norwegian shipping company in Oslo, to have been worth close to $50 million. But it gets worse, the Tricolor also had about 2,000 tons of oil on board. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 that moved in and over the region that day. Meanwhile, west of the City of Guelph, Police there were responding to what amounted to a record 543 collisions in 24 hours and all caused by whiteouts or icy roads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 continuous storm. 48 cm fell in one day alone!! At this time, the war effort was the only priority just like how essential care workers were during the Covid-19 pandemic that has, just like a world war, gripped the planet, bringing nations to their economic knees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 long as the world was still at WAR...that would just not look good nor would it feel good.
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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 destroyed. At its worst, the Thomas Fire involved over 8,500 firefighters in the fight to contain the blaze. This is actually still the largest mobilization of firefighters for any one wildfire in California history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Interstate Highway. The biggest of the pileups involved 50 vehicles and we had am empty and stranded school bus used as a make-shift triage.
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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 people, and caused moderate to severe damage to at least 100 properties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 cute and easy but really does no one any good. A total of 177 cm, 68" or 51/2 FEET of snow fell during a 102-hour period...and in that, it snowed hard during a total of 98 of those 102 hours….including this day in weather history.
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According to the Thai Meteorological Department’s Automatic Weather Station (AWS), over 500 millilitres of rain fell over a 7-day period starting on December 1st and lasting through the 7th in 2016. It would be recognized as the worst flood in over 30 years in the southern part of the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 program. Fans of the sci-fi cult classic Doctor Who, will remember when "The Great Smog" was the setting of the audio play "The Creeping Death". And the The Boris Starling novel Visibility is also set in this 1952 smog event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After being devastated in December of 2011by the Tropical Storm ‘Washi”, Super Typhoon Bopha made landfall on Mindanao, late on December 3, as a Category 5 super typhoon with winds of 175 mph (280 km/h).
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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 of Lake Ontario. Already sounds like a bad idea and It remains the only Grey Cup game ever suspended during play...starting on Saturday the 1st and wrapping up on Sunday, the 2nd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 be investigated further. The crashed train cars narrowly missed the main electrical feed that provides power to Amherst's 12,000 residents.
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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 meteorites falling into the ocean or driving into one of Earth's more open and remote places; so this was a crazy thing to even consider happening.
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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 Highway Patrol who tended to this said that at least 93 cars and 11 transport trucks crashed into each other in the middle of the afternoon along a tiny 1 1/2-mile stretch of the highway.
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THIS storm, named after the Mataafa wreck, was responsible for damaging or totally destroying about 29 vessels, killing 36 and causing shipping losses of $3.567 million in 1905 dollars on Lake Superior. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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). Snowfall totals in some areas were as much as 100 inches...that’s over 2.5 METERS PLUS drifts as high as 30 to 40 ft!!. Then the next day a severe temperature drop turned the wet melted snow all over the field to a solid sheet of ice!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. The Pittsburgh Steelers won by ONE field goal; that’s right, final score: 3-0!! AND THAT field goal came with only 17 seconds left in the game!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
November 25th, 1950 and this was the Canadian football championship game played between the Toronto Argonauts and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. The Grey Cup has been part of the Canadian pro football scene since as far back as 1909, when the trophy itself was donated by Governor General Earl Grey for the Canadian football championship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 across the province, approximately 87,000 customers were in the dark, according to Hydro One. In the province of Quebec, 53,600 Hydro-Quebec customers were without power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 most major Canadian cities would suffer in a full YEAR!!
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Live from Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton Alberta, this first-time event featured two of Canada’s most legendary dynastic teams: the Edmonton Oilers vs the Montreal Canadiens...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 the fire downhill through developed areas. The town of Paradise would disappear. In the end, the fire destroyed 85% of the town’s buildings.
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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 fatal collision and vehicle fire closed the northbound lanes of Highway 400, north of Highway 88 to Highway 89. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Late in the afternoon on this day in weather history it was a typical highway story that starts a chain reaction of this kind….Trucks. Within minutes there was a long gridlocked line of cars just sitting there, vulnerable to whatever happens next because they literally had nowhere to go. The traffic accident made it impossible for snow plows and emergency vehicles to get through. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The year was 1929 and The Dominion of Newfoundland was a country in eastern North America at the time. It is today the modern Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, but that didn't come about until 1949 when it became the 10th and final province in the country. It went by a number of different names: The Grand Banks earthquake, the Laurentian Slope earthquake and the South Shore Disaster. It hit right at dinner time for most, 5:02pm on November 18, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Not only was the snowstorm historic in its own right but it also provided the shock and awe of lightning. Just in the Western NY event alone, S. Cheektowaga, was buried under 65" (165cm) of snow….that’s over 5 feet of snow!!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The reach of Iota was massive; sea swells were witnessed as far north as Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, as far east as Jamaica and as far south as Colombia…..this day in weather History.
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Sidr hammered Bangladesh with peak 1-minute sustained winds of 260 km/h (160 mph), making it a Category-5 equivalent tropical cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson Scale that weighs hurricanes. Bangladesh set a modern day record of being able to mobilize over one million people to evacuate at a moment's notice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Just 36 seconds after liftoff, a bolt of lightning shot out like...well…..a rocket…..from the grey clouds over the launch site, striking the Saturn5 as it climbed towards space. What happened after that is a story of legends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This became known as the Armero tragedy—the deadliest of its kind in recorded history. However, volcanic activity at Nevado del Ruiz began about two million years ago, since the Early Pleistocene or Late Pliocene era, with three major eruptive periods. Yet somehow, when it blew, it caught everyone by surprise and nearby towns unaware. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was the highest tide in 50 years and with it came the looming threat that seawater would move up and into the historic monuments and works of art in the equally historic city. The waters peaked at 1.87m (6ft), that's just 2 inches below the highest flooding ever recorded in Venice back in 1966, and it submerged over 80% of a city already below sea level. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Each year we pause all programming on our network of feeds around the country to reflect and respect those who have and continue to serve bravely with their lives for the safety and security of our Canada. Wherever you happen to be listening to this podcast around the world, in Europe and especially for our very wide listener base in the United States, we also honour the brave men and women who serve you and the global good for peace and independence and freedom from tyranny and oppression. Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!
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SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter. She was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes when launched on June 7, 1958. Unfortunately, she also remains the largest to have sunk there.
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The day proved to be one of the wackiest weather days ever in Ontario. In Southwest Ontario on the Michigan border, Windsor’s temperatures climbed to a balmy 20°C. In Southeast Ontario and Canada's National Capital, Ottawa, they suffered a round of freezing rain. Off the shores of Georgian Bay in sort of Central Ontario, the city of Barrie had snow and Hamilton experienced a rare and very late in the season tornado.
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World War One involved the active duty of more than 65 million men from over 30 countries. Of these, 620,000 Canadians and nearly 8 million French fought in truly horrific conditions in France. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It is still the deadliest and most destructive natural disaster to hit the 5 great lakes in recorded history, killing more than 250 people, destroying 19 ships, and stranding 19 others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This powerful and deadly twister was first reported in the coastal town of Ladispoli, where two floors of an eight-story building collapsed. Dozens of other buildings were damaged in Ladispoli while it also closed local schools when the localized street flooding became a concern in Rome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Historically, it is one of the deadliest typhoons on record to hit the Philippines. It killed at least 6,300 people in that country alone while also leaving 11 million more people homeless.
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On November 4th, 2001, one of the more unique weather occurrences coincided with one of the conclusions of one of the most intense series and seasons in baseball history…..this day in weather history.
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The earthquake registered 7.9 Magnitude. It was the largest quake recorded in the United States since the 1965 Rat Islands earthquake. And that concussion upon eruption was the strongest ever recorded in the interior of Alaska. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Benjamin Franklin was living in the then US Capital, Philadelphia Pennsylvania and was excited about the prospect of recording observations of a predicted eclipse event. Problem is, there was no such thing as a Weather network back then so there was no way of knowing there was a hurricane looming until it was upon you and it was and it ruined his day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
You had to know that likely EVERY SINGLE halloween decoration across the province of Quebec was still set up or hanging from something creative when the 100 kilometre per hour winds hammered through. The good news is that it did NOT happen on the 31st because it most assuredly would have injured or even killed so many more people with everyone out in the streets revelling in the clubs or walking their kids around trick or treating.
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With stories from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, sit back and enjoy the candy, gum, chocolate and chips you likely stole from your kids' collection bags while we look at a special collection of spooky, scary and down right nasty weather events on an already spooky and scary night for all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 widespread throughout the entire region. While this storm was developing, there was a 70-foot fishing boat named the Andrea Gail in the Grand Banks of the North Atlantic on a fishing mission for swordfish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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...today we cover its final landfall, near Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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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 total of 2,000 quakes each year. That is a recipe for disaster.
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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 that this is normally the time of year where their NFL brothers The Eagles flourish and their NHL brothers The Flyers dominate. Game 5, which started on Monday, October 27, was suspended after the top of the 6th inning and called off for the remainder of the night. But this game was postponed again on the Tuesday then finally found its conclusion on Wednesday, October 29! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was reported that the Bluenose struck a coral reef off the coast of Haiti. The crew were safe but the ship was so badly damaged that it would soon sink to the bottom of the Caribbean sea. No one has ever found any scrap of evidence of the wreckage. So just what was she doing there in the first place and secondly how could this have happened? Today we investigate this, on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Long Island, Staten Island and the Jersey Shores will never ever forget. That's to be continued on October 29th...that day in weather history.
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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, and as the Dodgers took to batting practice the temperature read 104F (40C). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. But then this monster underwent what is called an eye-wall replacement cycle. In the case of this storm, there was severe flooding in the mountainous terrain of southern Mexico and it went on to damage or destroy over 10,000 homes and about 100,000 acres of farmland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 189 km/h. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 demonstration games to tune up for when spring arrived up north. That was the original plan anyway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 of what happened this day in weather history.
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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 postponed by a major storm system affecting the East Coast. It was only the third time in World Series history that a Game 1 had been postponed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 was part of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, where 3 of the top ten most intense Atlantic hurricanes took place: including also #4 Rita and #7 Katrina.
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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 “The Earthquake Series”.
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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 time it reached Canada, it was an extratropical category 1. Malton Airport (now Lester B. Pearson International Airport), in the west end of the city reported 137 mm (5.4 in) of rain, with the totals increasing until past Brampton which had been in the crosshairs of over 200mm! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 too disappeared in the dark. Nobody knew what had happened until a fan’s loud voice was heard shrieking: “It’s a home run.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 13th rain started and eventually turned into a heavy, wet snow that fell for hours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 perspective, the “Big Blow” is considered one of THE most powerful extratropical cyclones recorded in the U.S. in the 20th century; with respect to wind velocity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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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It is estimated, through census and other primitive documents, that between 22,000 and 27,501 people died throughout the Lesser Antilles when the storm passed through them from October 10th, this day in weather history, through the 16th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For the proud and battered citizens of Louisiana, Delta meant something devastating when it was the record-tying fourth named storm of 2020 to make landfall in Louisiana, as well as the record-breaking tenth named storm to strike the United States in that year.
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t was, on this day in weather history, the fourth-strongest landfalling hurricane in the contiguous United States, in terms of wind speed, and the most intense hurricane on record to strike the United States in the month of October. And just is for starters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
35,000 runners had come from around the world to compete in one of the preeminent marathons. The 30th annual Chicago Marathon was an unusually sweltering hot 87F or 30C Sunday morning in early fall of 2007. It was a horror movie; runners described chaotic scenes of racers throwing up, passing out or being carted away on stretchers in obvious distress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was sad what happened to NLM Cityhopper flight 431 that day but a stark reminder of how the force of nature holds sway over all living things on this planet regardless of our advancements in tech and science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was on October 5, 2010, this day in weather history when several supercells tracked over the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, dropping large hail, about 7.6cm in diameter and causing extensive damage. It was the largest hail ever reported in the Phoenix Metro Area.
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Part of our "Weather and War" series, we feature a battle from the earliest days of the United States while independence had only "just" been achieved. So far on this podcast we have covered the American Civil War with a deluge of flooding rain, and we discussed the War of Independence and how a hurricane took out ships from the British navy in Atlantic Canada. Today we hit up how FOG did the trick for General George Washington.
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Founded as a collective unit, NOAA came from an understanding that our oceans and atmosphere are inextricably linked and that our planet depends upon it, not only for our quality of our lives, but for life itself. BUT its roots go back to the 18th Century and it involves a weather nerd who would go on to become President of the United States of America.
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This stalled low reached out into the Atlantic ocean, in it’s counter clockwise Low Pressure spin, and inadvertently tapped into moisture from the nearby Hurricane Joaquin. This brought heavy, continuous rain to southeastern States, with the worst effects concentrated in South Carolina where the catastrophic flooding occurred. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was the strongest since the San Fernando earthquake of 1971 and its shaking effect was felt as far away as San Diego and Las Vegas. There was a long series of aftershocks that continued to startle and frighten Southern California for days after the initial 6.1 magnitude earthquake, further disturbing a population who already were on their last nerve. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
During the night of 28 to 29 September, 2016, heavy rain inundated Windsor, Tecumseh, Leamington, and Essex County in southwestern Ontario. The rain gauge at Windsor’s east-end measured 106 millimetres, while Tecumseh’s suggested as much as 190.
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When you say Hurricane Juan in Atlantic Canada it will both incite waves of fear and also spark conversation and both at the same time normally. On September 29th, 2003 Juan made landfall in Halifax as a Category 2 storm with winds whipping at 160kmh winds. It stayed that way from tail to tip of Nova Scotia and did not really lose any momentum over the Northumberland strait and rolled over PEI holding on as a Category 1 storm.
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New September record snowfall opened up on Saturday, the 28th and did not stop till the Monday, on the 30th! Travel was brutal, regardless of what mode you chose. Flights were canceled and the power went out for many. One particular road accident occurred along the Deerfoot Trail where 16 vehicles were involved.
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The event started exactly as many suspected for a game in the desert, played in the parking lot of a casino…..there was a tarp malfunction?! As inconsequential as the actual game was because it was after all just an exhibition and really just a publicity stunt at that, the game did happen and went relatively well all things considered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Typhoon Vera’s intensity resulted in catastrophic damage proving a major setback to the Japanese economy, because remember...they were still reeling from the events that closed World War II. In the aftermath, Japan's disaster management and relief systems were significantly redesigned, rebuilt and reformed. This storm would set the precedent for how the country would react to events like this in future.
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But that year, there were two that stood alone as headline grabbing for their sheer devastation and death toll. Hurricane Georges was a major Category 3 storm that held its strength and status long enough to devastate Saint Kitts and Nevis, Puerto-Rico and the Dominican Republic. Mitch was a very powerful and destructive late-season Category 5 hurricane that made landfall in Florida as a tropical storm after battering much of Central America.
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Understand that you can not do any of this without skies clear enough for a 19th century telescope to be able to reach out from earth’s surface, break through our many layers of atmosphere and peer deep into our night sky.
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First as a light rainfall while thousands were very slowly guided through security and on to the massive grounds of the famed inner-city park. They played a full 27 song set, a literal sonic attack for the fans who braved the elements for their rock and roll heroes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fueled by hot, dry drought stricken terrains and fanned by strong, gusty winds, these fires exploded and merged with each other into terrifying megafires!! This nightmare went on to incinerate more than 41,000 square kilometres of land and along with it over ten thousand buildings and taking the lives of at least 37 people!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Environment Canada calls the tornado that touched down in Dunrobin on September 21, 2018 “historic”. It was the first time since 1898 that an F3 or stronger tornado touched down anywhere in Canada this late in the year. This tornado was one of six tornadoes to hit the province that day and the most powerful in Eastern Ontario in over 100 years.
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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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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 Atlantic province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Tis was the day when the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks forced 38 planes to land here. Then Hurricane Gabrielle came in as a North Atlantic hurricane that caused flooding in both Florida and Newfoundland in that very same September of 2001. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 power across the entire island. Puerto Rico is what is referred to as an unincorporated territory of the United States. This means that this gorgeous island of Puerto Rico is neither a sovereign nation nor a U.S. state; and they were treated as such in the aftermath by all accounts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Enterprise! And even though Enterprise was just a test vehicle that never reached space, the simple fact that it was here now, signaled the true beginning of the space shuttle era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 had centered; in Dade and Broward counties, claiming the lives of 2500...but in it’s entirety, but killed over 4,000 people from its path though the Caribbean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 from this deluge and that equated to what said to have been four months of rain in a tiny window of only four hours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 1959, a Soviet rocket crashed into the moon’s surface, becoming the first man-made object sent from earth to reach the lunar surface. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 stretching from coastal Louisiana all the way to Corpus Christi, Texas. Ike would also cause flooding and significant damage along the Mississippi coastline through the Florida Panhandle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 pounds (14,000 kg) of gold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 the only other attack on US soil, when that happened in 2001. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Orleans would effectively change forever; after Hurricane Betsy, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 also the first one in Canada’s recorded history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 hammered down on the city and not only damaged homes & cars, there were destroyed crops and trees that were split open and even killed birds while they were still in flight! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall, once the centre to the Roman Empire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 the first Category 4 hurricane to strike the state since Charley in 2004. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 the amount of people killed by this storm in Nicaragua, the name FELIX was officially retired by the World Meteorological Organization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 was not discovered until it was too late. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Hurricane Michael in 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 storm, Dorian struck first made landfall in the Bahamas in Elbow Cay, just east of Abaco Island, on September 1 of 2019, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This earthquake near Charleston, South Carolina, on August 31, 1886, this day in weather history, was particularly harsh for this state as The Civil War had ruined the economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Guy Bluford Jr. was born November 22, 1942 in Philadelphia. He literally flew into the history books as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle 'Challenger' in 1983, becoming the first African American to travel into space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The effects of Hurricane Katrina, in August 2005, were catastrophic and widespread. It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in U.S. history, leaving at least 1,836 people dead, and a further 135 missing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was the first ever rated greater than F3 in August in the state of Illinois and the only F5 tornado to strike the Chicago area. The violent tornado killed 29 people and injured 353. It is the only the second F5 tornado ever recorded in August in the United States….and it happened this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On the morning of August 27th, 1883, a series of massive eruptions tore the volcano’s walls apart. Krakatoa’s final eruption was four times more powerful than the largest bomb that humans have detonated and it changed the world forever….this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The worst of the 3 hottest temperature games on record was when the Toronto Blue Jays came to Arlington Texas for a night game and at the 7:39pm opening pitch, the temperature was a disgusting 109℉ or 43-celcius!! I repeat….during A NIGHT GAME!!!. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today, we jump headlong into a hurricane so destructive that it is equaled only by that of Hurricane Katrina in ‘05. This in the story of Hurricane Harvey, the storm that levelled the lone star state when it hammered Houston….on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
I’ve already discussed volcanoes on this podcast and today is one that is not just prolific for the damage it caused, but because it is also THE volcano that literally froze a period in time for all to see milennia later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Katrina became the fifth hurricane of the 2005 season on August 25, only two hours before it made landfall around 6:30 p.m. EDT in Florida. The Keys were whipped by tropical storm force winds that continued through the 26th, but Katrina was still churning up momentum in the gulf. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This 1893 hurricane season was one of only two times in history to suffer 4 Atlantic storms along the US/Canada coast at the same time. The next time that would happen would be 105 years later...in 1998. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The 2011 Goderich, Ontario tornado was, at an F3 tornado strength, a major storm. It was generated by an isolated supercell which unexpectedly first came ashore...then tore across Huron County, Ontario, on the afternoon of Sunday, August 21, 2011….this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
At one point over 10 million people in Southern Ontario, at the time one-third of Canada's entire population, were placed under either tornado watches and/or warnings as these powerful and dangerous storms rolled through. In all, a grand total of 19 tornadoes touched down with four of them producing F2 damage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The province sees 12-13/year but there are always the outlier years that far exceed that number. When the storm came close to the Greater Toronto Area, a tornado warning was issued, but the storm changed its characteristics. Wind gusts of well over 100 km/h (62 mph) blew through this densely populated centre. That was accompanied by golf ball sized hail, but really the main event was the heavy rain flooding many parts of the city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The 1931 China floods, or the 1931 Yangtze River floods, were a series of floods that occurred from June to August 1931 in the Republic of China, hitting major cities Wuhan, Nanjing and beyond, eventually culminated into a dyke breach along Lake Gaoyou on 26 August. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Camille had only just formed on Aug. 14, reached Category 3 status, which now classified it as a major hurricane, just one day later. Then the day after that, on Aug. 16, it skyrocketed to Category 5 strength. Camille defied a prediction that it would turn northeast toward the Florida Panhandle when it hooked left and instead headed for the Mississippi coast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Category 5 hurricane is a beast unlike most other natural phenomena on Earth. When Andrew made landfall as a Category 5 hurricane, it packed a 1-minute sustained wind speed of 165 mph (266 km/h). As many as 1.4 million people lost power at the height of the storm; some didn't get their power restored for over a month!! In the Everglades, 70,000 acres (280 km2) of trees were downed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was the second tornado that hit Williams Lake in fifteen months. Its path was 21km long and 200m wide. Several cottages were damaged, two of which crushed to their very foundation and then totally swept away, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Four of London’s main-line railway stations were flooded and closed, a large part of the London Underground was brought to a standstill as tunnels were flooded and the electricity supply failed. It has been suggested that likely between 175 to 200mm of rain could have fallen in that short window of time, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A wind gust out ahead of an approaching severe thunderstorm cell hit the temporary roof structure of the Indiana State fair’s mainstage, causing it to collapse. The heavy structure fell on the crowd below who likely considered themselves the lucky ones to get a spot up close to the stage, waiting for the headliner; Sugarland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Barely one month prior to the start of World War 2, there was a film...it had a massive budget for its time and a lot of that was put toward it’s groundbreaking special effects. You see, this particular film wanted to bring its audience face to face with the deadliest force of nature known to earth….the tornado!! it was August 12, 1939, when The Wizard of Oz had one of it’s world premieres at the Strand Theatre in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin; this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 villages and killed nearly 3,000 people, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Michigan and western Ohio. This land mass we are talking about today stretches 770 miles (1240km)! And it was no marathon, this was a sprint….it took only 14 hours for this to do what it did this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 weather permitted visual targeting. This was the beginning of something most could not even comprehend yet. "IT" happened this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 at their stadium and they were to go on for the first time, on August 8, 1988, to usher in a new era in Cubs baseball….the night game, this day in weather history! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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: tornado deaths in Manitoba, let alone in all of Canada, we are back in the Home of the Blue Bombers for what is almost to the exact date on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 water sports: sailing, boating, canoeing, and of course swimming. Gull Lake, Manitoba, is a short 45 minutes 80 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, But this twister on August 5th, wrecked those boats, uprooted trees and destroyed or severely damaged nearly all of the 23 trailers and cabins in the area. This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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, however the question is raised: Might this have been avoided?.....this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 was so oppressively hot that the grid almost crashed, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 and up to 1.3 kilometres (0.81 mi) wide in some places, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 was a foot. But what? Lets find out what happened on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 special though because it is another start of something great; this time we look back at the start of NASA….this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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….on a dare by British pilots at the base who bet they couldn't do it. What started as an act of machismo or bravado, became a turning point in how we investigate and analyze hurricanes!!!...and it took flight This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 there; this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 an EF3 tornado….this day in weather history! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 anyone looking to invade….there is a lot to unwrap here and we’re exploring this right now on This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 now what happened in 2019, on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 States, along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and their tributaries, from April to October 1993…..we pick this up in progress right here...on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 just what happened July 21, 1997, you know, This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 that ripped the region apart in July 1996, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 should have been, This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Atlantic hurricane in a season and the most intense to form before August. And it made it’s first...that’s right...its first landfall on This Day in Weather History...July 18th, 2005. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 weather history! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 running rivers, flooded out basements and underpasses were literally submerged in water so deep it was totally impassable. It happened on July 15th, 2004...This Day in Weather History!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 event? That is the story today on This Day in Weather History!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 the world but whose official name I do not have the rights to mention here but I think we all know what I am referring to...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 otherwise natural phenomena playing a central role in this being remembered as one of the craziest golf tournaments to ever take place anywhere at any time on earth, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 to hit the province since 1985 when it hit this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 filling up with water like a swimming pool….like it did this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 River flood in 1927, Hoover recommitted to bettering American infrastructure to prevent another similar catastrophe. On July 7th, 1930, construction of the Hoover Dam began. Over the next five years, a total of 21,000 men would work ceaselessly to produce what would be the largest dam of its time, as well as one of the largest manmade structures in the world! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 distinguished by incidents where people were hurt or property was damaged. The July 6th, 1999 twister is a rare exception, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Day in Weather History!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 2014, 385 wildfires burned in Canada’s Northwest Territories— 57 per cent more than average. The fires burned a record 33,900 km2, costing The N.W.T.'s Department of Environment and Natural Resources $55 million fighting the fires of 2014! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On July 2, 1843, a powerful storm brought more than just gusty winds and heavy rainfall to Charleston, South Carolina…..and an alligator, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On July 1st, 1863, one of the largest military conflicts in North American history started when Union and Confederate forces collided at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The epic battle lasted three days and resulted in a retreat to Virginia by Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. But in all the history books and movies made about this infamous period, there is rarely much romanticized about how much the weather played in it’s events; today we do that, This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When we think of Guadalajara Mexico we think ice in margaritas in a rustic cantina with tacos and a mariachi band playing nearby. What we don’t normally think about is the whole city buried in ice. Ice comes in many shapes and forms but it rarely comes in south western mexico...especially the way it did this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
And I thought that I was a weather nerd….For the 3rd sitting President of the United States, The weather held a curious fascination for one Tomas Jefferson as he made regular weather observations in a journal. He bought his first thermometer while working on the Declaration of Independence...not a snappy new pen...no, a thermometer and his first barometer shortly after that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
California knows earthquakes. The sunshine coast has nearly been destroyed or erased altogether a few times by quakes over the centuries. But with all that history, did you know that two of the strongest earthquakes to ever hit California, did so on the same day; June 28, 1992, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Michael Phelps won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games. At those games, he would break fellow American swimming legend Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games. But Mother Nature would get the better of him and the whole US Swim Team, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The John B. King drillship, a 43-metre long wooden boat, was the largest drill boat in Canada at the time. She had finished drilling the holes and was being led by the charged dynamite detonation wires, pulling away from the site when struck by lightning, detonating the underwater charges, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We’ve heard them all before, Lightning never strikes the same place twice, your odds of getting by lightning are impossible, get struck by lightning and you get super powers like Shazaam! What happens of you get struck SEVEN times in one life? We find out today on This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today is the time that the rain at a Glastonbury Festival that even had the most ardent of revellers thinking….ok maybe this is too much now...on This Day in Weather History!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
I was on The Weather Network tracking every movement of this storm system and broadcasting the events LIVE...all while on my cell making sure my cousin and his family were alright. On June 23, 2010, Midland was struck by an F2 tornado, causing $15 million in damage….on this Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Elie, Manitoba tornado was an F5 tornado that struck the town of Elie, in the province of Manitoba 40 kilometres west of Winnipeg. It became the FIRST and ONLY of it's kind in Canada's history, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Comstock Lake fire was discovered on June 21, 2018 and was caused by lightning.By the end of June, 2018, there had been more than 560 wildfires in British Columbia. This day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It is still to this day considered the worst fishing-related disaster in New Brunswick in over 100 years. Of course I am referring to the 1959 Escuminac disaster. On the 19th, it is estimated the storm intensified into a hurricane about halfway between Bermuda and Nova Scotia, but it was short-lived because six hours later, it became extratropical. And with that, The remnants struck Atlantic Canada, once in Nova Scotia and again in Newfoundland, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
During the spring of 2013, southern Alberta was hit with one of Canada’s most expensive natural disasters, destroying communities from Banff to Calgary and beyond. It was the worst flooding to hit the City since 1932. This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Something seemed “off” as early as June 11th….Banded convection was first noticed in the northwest Caribbean Sea when a polar front dropped into the region from the northwest kicking things into action, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
During the spring of 2013, southern Alberta was hit with one of Canada’s most expensive natural disasters, destroying communities from Banff to Calgary and beyond. It was the worst flooding to hit the City since 1932. This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was the 1946 Tecumseh Tornado...the most powerful ever to hit the Windsor area and still ranks within the top 3 Tornadoes ever to hit in Canada, this day in weather history! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On the June 5th episode of this podcast I presented to you a story about a tropical storm that never reached hurricane status yet still had its name retired. Today is a storm that struck a similar note when it tuned up the Pelican State, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tornadoes are micro-scale areas of rapidly dropping pressure. When this happens it is a mind-bending counter clockwise draw of air. COUNTER clockwise! Always COUNTER clockwise!....except for that time back in 2019 on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Generally speaking, when you mention tornadoes in Canada, we normally do not think of ...well..Canada. We immediately think “Tornado Alley USA”! So when what happened back in 1892 happened and it was so bad that it is still in the top 10 today….we MUST investigate what happened back then, on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
6-million dollars can’t even clean up a medium impact natural disaster these days. Especially if it wipes through a major metro like Calgary Alberta. One did in 2020….and it cost a metric ton...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The game was a joke...fog rolled out ahead of a massive rainfall that ended things after only 7 innings. There were 2 out in that 7th inning, wth and runners on 2nd and 3rd that's when Kelly Gruber stepped up and the rest is a bit foggy. This story reads like one of my old Hardy Boys novels; it would have been called “the night the ball disappeared”, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Think of this: Wind gusts up to 130KMH At the height of a severe storm, more than 90,000 were reported without power. Hail came in literal dumpings, building up into snow-like piles. This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Wet, overcast, dank...that’s England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. But beginning June 10th of 2007, things changed...and they got a whole lot worse this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 2002, China was exposed to a range of extreme natural phenomena. Today we tackle the devastating floods that completely overwhelmed the Hubei Province, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
the latest flooding in Manitoba, New Brunswick, the Great Lakes and yes, even in British Columbia, brought on by the warming season. Today, we dive deep into just what happened in the Fraser Valley back on June 8th, 1948, This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On Saturday, June 7, back in 1692, an earthquake struck Port Royal, Jamaica. Wow, rarely do I get to tell pirate stories ever, let alone on a podcast about weather. But today’s tale is real life, no legend, no exaggeration, strictly earth science, on This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Is there ever a good time for a tornado to strike a town? Short answer is no...but there is The Worst time. In The middle of the night when everyone is asleep is easily the worst time and this is exactly what happened here, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Allison was the first storm since Tropical Storm Frances in 1998 to strike the northern Texas coastline….yeah we had ourselves “a big ol Texas sized problem that was only getting started This Day in Weather History!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Atacama Desert of Northern Chile one the the most inhospitable places on planet Earth. Rainfall totals of 1-2mm/year is normal. 30-50mm would therefore take a generation to fall, not in 24 hours. This region is rich in mineral and copper mines because of it’s hot and dry conditions. It simply does not rain here….well except for that ONE time back in 2002 this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We Need a world class stadium, they said! It needs to have a roof to protect us from the weather, they said! It needs to stay open for the sun then close for the rain they said! In 1989 it was complete. We need a splashy opening ceremony broadcast all over Canada so all can see our wonder of engineering they said! Yeah…..that looked good on paper, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We all saw the photo, it’s legendary. The massive tubular twister looming in the not too far distance with the man calmly, almost unaware, cutting his grass in the foreground. But the tornado that touched down north of Three Hills on Friday night was more intense than previously thought. This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We Made It! This is episode 1 of Year 2!. Today is a special longer-length episode where we will look back at how this all came to be and what goes into the production of a podcast. Especially one that deals with only weather and weather adjacencies. Back in the fall of 2019 I was asked to pitch an idea for a potential podcast...this was not my idea...I’ll tell you all about how we got to This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We made it! Today is the final episode for the first year of this podcast!! It’s been a long and winding road but one that has seen this project rocket from just me at the start to a much larger and more dedicated team spanning every conceivable department within The Weather Network. I could not have done this without all of you...especially for this long every day so thank you all! I’m Chris Mei, writer, producer and host of this day in weather history this magnificent daily podcast creation from the amazing support of The Weather Network in Canada. It took a full calendar year to get to a story that was MY first introduction to just how sinister weather can be, on really any given day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the pacific Northweat all you have to do is utter the name Vanport, Oregon and it will send shivers down the spines of "well-bred" Portlanders. We get into why right now on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For today’s special episode I tell you the story of Canada’s deadliest peacetime maritime disaster. Before you start asking questions, let me throw you a few knuckle balls: This shipwreck didn’t happen at sea, It was also not even on the sometimes deadly waters of Great Lakes...oh and it also didn't even happen in stormy weather…..all that you know going in is that it happened on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
At the turn of the century, a century ago, thousands of people across the southeastern United States gathered to witness a rare and spectacular sight as the moon cast its shadow across the sun and darkened the skies…..this ominous day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 2017, water levels in Lake Ontario were at their highest recorded level in more than 100 years. And on May 27th, they reached that peak, a level that was recorded at 75.93m on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we look at the curious case of a BMI airbus bound for Cyprus from Manchester, England. They never made it, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When thunder roars go indoors. To some it’s a cliche thing weathercasters say but did you know that this one simple phrase could mean the difference between life and death? It sure did for the 11 people I’m talking about who all were struck down at a picnic, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On May 24, 1973, an F4 tornado struck Union City Oklahoma but that was not the big story. Not on THIS day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The number of fires and areas burnt was not a record high for this region, but what differentiated it was what and who it affected; these were moving in on urban centres this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tornadoes are fierce and unpredictable. Chasers know this all too well. Especially those who came back with research and images from the EF5 that crushed Joplin Missouri in 2001 on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yesterday was Moore Oklahoma, tomorrow is Joplin Missouri; BOTH EF5 monsters and both within 8 years of each other. Today we go back to the year 1953 for the F4 that hit Sarnia Ontario, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oklahoma typically experiences around 60 tornadoes a year. Afterall, It is part of Tornado Alley, a nickname for this unique geographical area in the southern plains of the central United States, where tornadoes are common. I’ve done plenty of stories on this podcast from here so we at least have the backstory going in to this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was on a Tuesday, it was March 17th in the year 2020 when six-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady announced that his 20 years in New England was over. At that time it was reported that the skies darkened and no sun has been seen ever since. THIS, however is NOT that story. This was an even darker day, this day in New England Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On the morning of May 18, Mount St. Helens was shaken by an earthquake of about 5.0 magnitude, and the entire north side of the summit began to slide down the mountain. This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was not a bad day weather wise on take off but things changed fast and for the worse. We are back in the year 2001 and this Faraz Qeshm Airlines Yak-40 was a short-haul trijet en route to Gorgan Airport from Tehran-Mehrabad Airport in Iran. That was the plan anyway. This day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
If we were to lose the Ozone layer of atmosphere we would be in big big trouble. Top of the list of concerns would be radiation from the sun would be able to reach earth directly. Sounds pretty horrifying and impossible right? We were on the verge of it and it wasn’t all that long ago. The alarm was sounded in the May 16th issue of NATURE Magazine, three scientists from the British Antarctic Survey announced that they had confirmed detection of what was indeed abnormally low levels of ozone over the South Pole….we were now in BIG trouble...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hurricane Able was a rare hurricane that formed outside the typical North Atlantic hurricane season. We still had to get to June 1st and we were nowhere near that date on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
With 5 weeks to go to the first official day of Summer, people had their snowmobiles put away and motorcycles out already. The had skis and snowboards already switched out for water skis and hiking gear. NOT SO FAST….there was ONE more punch to the face with snow and it hit this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This collision is called Springtime. Shoulder seasons of spring and fall have some of the most violent weather because of the dynamic gradient between patterns and their associated air masses. And this was felt full on in Southern Ontario this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 1997 people boarding cruise ships, or rollerblading or showing off their mid-life crisis convertible Cadillacs had to have been stunned when they saw a twister in the middle of the day in the middle of Miami...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was on May 11, back in 1934, when a massive storm sent millions of tons of topsoil flying from across the country...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tornadoes are horrifying and swift, they are in, they terrorize, destroy, sometimes even kill and then they are gone. So for an outbreak to go on for 4 DAYS, that’s just out of control!! This one started today, may 10th and began what would go on to prove to be as major tornado outbreak as ever there had been for this region with the bulk of the activity in central and eastern Oklahoma. This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Remember Grad? If you had an outdoor graduation commencement and you think back, I bet you probably don't remember the weather. Today is the curious case that unfolded for the University of Colorado's Class of 2019 spring graduates, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The derecho is essentially just a widespread, long-lived wind storm. But on May 8, 2009 when one of the most intense and unusual derechos was ever observed, they called it a "Super Derecho", this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mount Pelée is a gorgeous 4,500-foot mountain on the north side of the Caribbean island of Martinique. On May 7, 1902, this day in weather history, Martinique’s Mount Pelée began the deadliest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 2017, the interior experienced the worst flooding ever. They were talking about this one in the Okanagan for MONTHS after this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For this impossible story today, we will refer to records over nine hundred years old, when witnesses reported that the Full Moon briefly vanished from the sky during a total lunar eclipse. This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On May 4, 1971 a low that covered most of Quebec brought relentless rain for three consecutive days. But that triggered the disappearance of a whole community this day in weather history Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On May 1, 2016, a wildfire began southwest of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. on May 3, when it swiftly blew through the community, it immediately forced the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history, with upwards of 88,000 people forced from their homes all of a sudden, This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Back in 2017 the Ottawa river had what was called “Flood of the Century”. BUT then THIS new record setting flooding along the Ottawa River was named Canada’s top weather story in 2019….it happened this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
One of Canada’s oldest government institutions, period, is the Meteorological Service of Canada. They have been helping Canadians make informed decisions about their health and safety and, quite frankly, economic prosperity for 150 years today, THIS day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What could have happened for this to be given a name as awe inspiring as “Flood of the Century”? Well for starters, it covered over 2 thousand 500 square kilometers of land -- in water -- and that forced the evacuation of a staggering 28,000 people, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On April 29, 2019, over 9,000 homes and 273 businesses were flooded in Quebec, and as a result there were now 12,000 people displaced. In the area affected, we also had 82 landslides linked to the flooding as well as the roads and highways. In total there were 310 municipalities across Quebec that were affected by the flooding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Two waves of supercell thunderstorms brought widespread large hail to the St. Louis Metropolitan Area and boy do I mean LARGE!! During the afternoon and evening hours of April 28th, 2012 widespread hail damage to vehicles, houses and businesses were reported in and around the St Louis Metro...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Over the past 45 years, five major ice jam events occurred on the Albany River in Northern Ontario...this is the story of what happened, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Remember Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz when she quipped “Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore”? It was a tornado-like this that prompted that quote. This F5 from this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, during the afternoon of 25 April 2015, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal and surrounding countries. The violent and relentless earth-shaking from the quake triggered an avalanche that rolled over Base Camp on Mount Everest like a steam roller. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
And here we go again...springtime flooding. A combination of melting snow and heavy rain in the spring of 2008 contributed to the worst flooding New Brunswick had seen in 35 years….this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, on the 9th we introduced the first 7 astronauts ever in NASA, on the 11th we re-lived the harrowing story of the Apollo 13 mission and on the 12th we launched the first-ever space shuttle in the STS era...today we Go back to the prep work that started the mission to the moon when the Ranger 4 launched to get pics of the moon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We have one home. We will only ever have one home. Earth. We can dream all we want of living on other planets but until we become a totally different species of humans, dreaming is as far as we will ever get so let’s make sure we make the best of it. We started that this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles California after the 1961 baseball season and they made Chavez Ravine their home and Dodger Stadium has stood there ever since. If you are not familiar with that geography, it's a very dry desert! So, suffice to say it, rainouts at Dodger Stadium are extremely rare. Since 1962, there have been only 17….but their luck ran out this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, on Saturday, April 20, 1996, The snow had barely melted in Southern Ontario when two F3 tornadoes ripped through the region. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, Toronto did suffer Hurricane Hazel but what happened here was a horror story that was very close to totally erasing Toronto forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this day in weather history, the first Canadian tornado that would ever be rated using the Enhanced Fujita Scale touched down in southern Ontario. We explain why the rating scale changed in 2013 and how it works. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What a year 1967 was for the country of Canada. It was before my time but it was the year celebrating the Canadian Centennial and it went on all year long. Yes, it was the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation, where Celebrations in Canada occurred throughout the year but culminated on Dominion Day, July 1, 1967. But only a few months prior there was no celebration in parts of Alberta this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, on Monday, April 16, 2018, the Toronto Blue Jays postponed their night game after chunks of ice fell from the CN Tower and through the roof of the Rogers Centre into Right Field. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Colorado sees a ton of snow and why not, they are defined by the massive Rocky Mountains. But even the snow can reach a point of TOO much. And they hit it when they recorded the Most Snow Measured in 24 Hours: 75.8 Inches!! So the storm of April 14-16, back in 1921 was outstanding for the region….and right in the midst of it was this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, spring is as much a pain in the grapes to vineyards as it is to us with the ever-changing conditions and that irritating blend of seasons to provide a messy mix of temperatures, dewpoints, pressure gradients and precip types. The worst of all is frost; a threat that has the potential to destroy an entire crop of grapes before it even begins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, over a 2 day period spanning Easter Sunday and Monday, April 12–13, of the already locked down and quarantined 2020, tornadoes ruined everything for those of the Southeastern United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, a new era in space flight began on April 12, 1981, when Space Shuttle Columbia blasted off into near-earth orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was supposed to be routine. The space race was at such a furious pace already that even the media had grown weary of all the success. The plan was to land on the moon, explore the Imbrium Basin and conduct geological experiments. And then head home. That, however, is NOT what happened this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, for some reason, it would take almost 14 years before it would become an official world record, but still on April 10, 1996, the Earth's strongest surface wind, not including tornadoes, was measured. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, on April 9, 1959, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) introduced America’s first astronauts to the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, a bridge on a normally busy provincial road in northern Italy collapsed on April 8th, 2020; however, with virtually no traffic anywhere because of the crippling restrictions brought on because of the coronavirus lockdown, there were just two people who suffered minor injuries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, from April 5 to 7, a pair of low-pressure systems led to major flooding in Southern Quebec and wind damage across parts of Ontario and Quebec. Then it got really bad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On April 6th, the morning light revealed a shocking sight: tens of thousands of birds, chilly and exhausted, we're unable to move. Just what the hell happened here, this day in weather history? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, Wednesday, April 5, 1972, an unusually intense squall line swept coastal Oregon and Washington state, but hidden within this were strongly embedded tornadoes... and among them, an F3! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, the 1974 Super Outbreak was the second-largest tornado outbreak on record for a single 24-hour period, just behind the 2011 Super Outbreak. So, yesterday I told you all about the events of April 3rd and the tragic story from Windsor Ontario; now is Part 2 of this tale...the devastating April 4th of The 1974 Super Outbreak. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, the 1974 Windsor tornado still stands as the 6th deadliest tornado in Canadian history. On this day it killed 9 people while injuring dozens more. It has also come to be remembered for the extensive toll it took on life and infrastructure, especially to the Windsor Curling Club on Central Avenue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, the 1957 Dallas Tornado could very easily have been shrugged off as “just another Texas Twister”. However, this event was actually historically quite significant. You see, the tornado did not strike in a sparsely populated rural location, but rather in the middle of the downtown metropolitan area. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Alan Dennis Kulwicki who was known by his peers as "Special K" and the "Polish Prince", was not just the driver; he was also a team owner. And today we remember the tragic loss of this NASCAR champion...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Eiffel Tower has had a crazy history. Did you know it was set for demolition in 1909? But the study of meteorology saved it? Yes, the want to know the weather better played a role in preserving the Eiffel Tower...today on This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, in 1848, a very unique and specific chain of events came together at the same time to create a spectacle that has likely only happened one time since the last ice age...and it happened in Niagara Falls! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We have another podcast episode dedicated to an airline mishap that is so ridiculous it defies logic. On March 29, 2015, an Air Canada Airbus A320-211 landed short of the runway in Halifax and was severely damaged….this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, on March 28, 2000, it was during the evening hours when a powerful F3 tornado struck Downtown Fort Worth, Texas, causing major and in some cases irreparable damage to several buildings and highrises … and claimed the lives of two people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, they called it the 1964 Alaskan earthquake, they also called it the Great Alaskan earthquake and they also called it the Good Friday earthquake..because it struck Friday, March 27th of 1964. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, on the 25th, most of Nova Scotia closed down. Flights in and out of Halifax Stanfield International Airport were cancelled. A 172 km section of The Trans-Canada was closed from Truro to Moncton and about 450 snowplows and salt trucks were deployed to work around the clock. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This is another special Weather and War edition of this podcast. During Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003 a major dust storm swept through Baghdad and across the greater Tigris and Euphrates valleys….this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How about this story: March 24th, 1996, U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid transferred to the Russian space station Mir from the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for a planned five-month stay. Lucid was the first female U.S. astronaut to live in a space station. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The January storms resulted in 42 California counties being declared federal disaster areas. Then in March, the sequel resulted in this time all but one of the counties in the state being declared a disaster area. We join this story in progress on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
They are not unusual, actually quite the opposite, they are as normal as the change of seasons; and normally accompany them. They are land-rock-and mudslides, and they are very regular in the Pacific Northwest. Like the one, today from THIS day is weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A well respected climatologist out of the United States called this March 2012 heatwave “the most extraordinary temperature anomaly in North American history”.....wow, that’s this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, it was one of the worst blizzards since records began in 1872 to strike the State of Colorado and hit blasted in with a vengeance to cripple the mile-high city of Denver! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In BC in 2019, things were already "so 2020" - January was well above seasonal, February then went brutally cold and as for March, it was threatening to rewrite the record books for drought…..we pick the madness up this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was called the “Tri-State Tornado,” and, in 1925 it began its northeast track in Ellington, Missouri, but southern Illinois was the hardest hit...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Two things you normally do not associate with the Aloha State are tornadoes and St. Patrick’s day. But Two tornado warnings were issued in the Hawaiian Islands on this day. No damage or tornado touchdowns were reported to the National Weather Service. But let’s be honest here, that was the least of tier shock at this point....this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, in the afternoon on Wednesday, March 16th, 2016, Environment Canada confirmed a tornado with up to 170-kilometre-per-hour winds struck southern Grey County. This was now the earliest recorded tornado in Ontario. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From March 14th to 31st, 2019, a truly historic Midwest flooding inundated millions of acres of agriculture, while also overwhelming cities and towns, causing widespread damage to roads, bridges, levees, and dams…..it was a mess this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, between Mar. 14 – 15, 2008, a total of 45 tornadoes dropped across the Southeastern United States. The 24-hour and seven-minute event went on to be called "The 2008 Atlanta tornado outbreak." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, a powerful blizzard paralyzed travel in parts of the American Plains, producing damaging winds in places that didn't even pick up any snow, but still caused whiteout conditions and set all-new records for low-pressure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Wind is normally what BC storms are known for and they are powerful and oftentimes lethal to people and property...like today for instance and what happened this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was a day when Earth stood still in horror watching the events of a massive earthquake that was followed by an even more devastating tsunami. One that put the whole of the planet on red alert. It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began way back in the year 1900….and it happened this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we meet Mr. John Park Finley, he was curious, he was a pioneer and he was the first to truly study tornadoes. Then in 1884, he published his research in the journal Science. But as they say, every dog has its day and March 10, 1884, was his... this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Weather on this planet is complex and always evolving. Stick around long enough and you can realize long-term trends or climate norms. But basically, the moment EARTH developed an atmosphere, the weather started and it will always remind us of who's boss here. But alas, On March 9, 1945... 300 American bombers dropped almost 2,000 tons of incendiaries on Tokyo, Japan….this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, on March 8, 1669, Mount Etna, on the island of Sicily in modern-day Italy, began rumbling. The locals likely took no notice of it because prior to this day, this majestic mountain had been the subject of ancient Greek mythology. But that all changed with what happened next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blizzards are the most fierce and destructive of all winter storms. They are as foreign as ice hockey to whole regions of this planet where they do not ever experience this season. So where they happen...it’s a safe bet where. So when the North American blizzard of 2008 struck most of southern and eastern North America from March 6 to March 10, it was dangerous, it was crippling and it was massive...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, although Hurricane Sandy is one of the worst storms to ever hit New Jersey, the Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962, is actually known as THE worst storm to hit New Jersey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, on Mar. 5, 1993, Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301 was scheduled to go from Macedonia to Switzerland. Although it was snowing and visibility was limited to only 900 meters, clearance for takeoff was given and twenty-eight seconds after that, the plane was in the air. However, that is as good as this flight got. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, in 1910, The Canadian Pacific Railway had finally completed its transcontinental railroad through to Canada's west coast, it was integral for not only the flow of commerce in this very young country but also to assist in populating the middle part ...you know...the prairies. It was therefore of vital importance to keep it open through the winter months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tornadoes are precision-killing machines. Best to hit the storm cellar if you see one coming because you never know where you might end up in this atmospheric game of roulette. It’s a game of chance today on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, storm Emma, was a deep area of low pressure that played a pivotal role in the 2017–18 European windstorm season. As it ran into Anticyclone Hartmut dubbed the Beast from the East, Emma's warmer moisture-laden air rode over the cold dry air that had been sitting over Western Europe for a few days….the result of this collision was nothing short of a catastrophe for many Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The world-famous CN Tower in downtown Toronto Canada has been a beacon of wonder for decades for all who have ever approached it or visited it and either ascended to its observation deck in one of their show-piece elevators or climbed its stairs to raise awareness and money for charity. So what happens if sheets of thick ice fall from this massive marvel of engineering….like when it happened this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A powerful storm system that brought blizzard conditions to western New York created a winter wonderland on the shores of Lake Erie that resembled something out of the hit Disney movie "Frozen.", this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The 2010 Chile earthquake occurred off the coast of central Chile on a Saturday, 27 February at a very early at 03:34 local time in the morning in 2010…..this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ah yes, Rome! The coliseum, the Pantheon, St. Peters Basilica....so much history, so much culture ...and so much snow?! On the morning of February 26, 2018, Romans woke up to a rare sight: snow for the first time in six years….this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On February 25, 1991, real-life black rain fell for more than 10 hours in southeastern Turkey….but how? Why? We’re about to find out what happened this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The 7th province to join the confederation was walloped by a blizzard that is still remembered today for its lethal combination of the wind, the poor visibility and its longevity...and also for the fact that it was hammered by a huge snowfall total...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, typhoon Wutip, known in the Philippines as Tropical Depression Betty, was the most powerful February typhoon on record, surpassing Typhoon Higos of 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The 1998 Kissimmee tornado outbreak of February 22–23, 1998, was a devastating tornado outbreak, the deadliest tornado event in Florida history...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Finland Ice Marathon is annually held in Kuopio on a frozen Lake Kallavesi. This location has held 36 successful races; but 2020 stepped in and it’s weather had a different idea for the event's 37th year. This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this occasion, it was strong chinook winds that brought daily temperatures soaring as high as 17 °C (63 °F)!! You don't need me to tell you that 17C is NOT winter games weather. It was a disaster for all outdoor events. This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We have covered major traffic accidents caused by the weather before on this podcast: The January 9th “Deadly Michigan Pileup”, The December 8th, “Pennsylvania Pileup”, and of course the November 19th story called “Terror on the Trans Canada”. There were close to 200 vehicles that were involved in this massive road accident on a windswept stretch of Highway 15….this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This is a storm that we at The Weather Network in Canada covered from start to finish and still carries a legend status among all who lived it in our Maritimes. This is one of those events that carries so much reverence that everyone claims to have lived it, when it started...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
So New Mexico’s most notorious gunslingers from that period, known as the wild west, got into some real unusual tangles; but none so unlikely or unusual or dangerous as the snow of winter mixing it up with a tornado….like what happened this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, on February 16, 2016...51.2 centimetres of fresh snow was recorded at the Ottawa airport, breaking that record set in 1954 for snowfall in a single day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
And everything was just that, history, when the February 15, 2003 storm kicked in the saloon doors and cleared the dance floor...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
February 14 - Happy Valentine's Day...the only time you get a pass for presenting tickets to a basketball game to your sweetie as a gift….was in Toronto in 2016 for the NBA All-Star Game! This Day in Weather History!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A 3-day blizzard event dominated the eastern half of North American from February 12 - Valentine's Day on the 14th….today we cover the 13th, when a record amount of snow from this system hammered down on the City of Hamilton...this day in weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Yukon Quest! It is unforgiving and treacherous and as challenging as it is life-threatening, and still this sled dog race has been regularly scheduled every February since 1984 to run between Fairbanks, Alaska, and Whitehorse, Yukon. During the 2006 edition of this race, brutal weather trapped five Yukon Quest mushers on Eagle Summit ….on February 12th ....on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Tuskegee Airmen were the first black military pilots in what was called the U.S. Army Air Corps (AAC), which would later merge into what we know today as the U.S. Air Force. It also played a role in producing the first black meteorologists…..it's all part of this Black History Month Moment in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The resort at Val d’Isere was operated by a nonprofit youth organization and attracted many young ski enthusiasts. On the morning of February 10, most of the guests were eating breakfast in a large room facing the mountain. It was around this time when everyone’s lives changed forever, in the sudden crash of snow....this tragic day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, the February 1969 nor'easter was a severe winter storm that battered the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions of the United States between February 8 and February 10….we now pick things up in progress on the 9th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It is as punishing as it is relentless. Today was The Prairies Blizzard: Worst in Canadian Railway History. On Jan. 30, 1947, a mighty blizzard steamrolled over all of southern Saskatchewan. It rendered it paralyzed, forcing the entire region to remain totally shut down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Manitoba’s Highway 75, is part of what is termed “Canada's National Highway System”....it is also part of a network of highways and rail lines that makes up the “ International Mid-Continent Trade Corridor”, that connects to cities in central regions of North America....so it’s kinda important that this corridor is not interrupted by say...a blizzard. But that is exactly what happened, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On Wednesday, February 6, 2008, the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) was hit with a winter blizzard...the likes of which it hadn't seen in over 3 decades….this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was a wipeout, A total wipeout and it was a nightmare. Snowfall caused the many areas of the entire country of Afghanistan to have no options for accessibility, making it difficult to obtain a full picture of the impact of the natural disasters. The full picture of the impact of this series of catastrophic events would unfold and it was far greater than anyone could have imagined when it happened this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was a “Storm To Remember”. It was a period where the whole lower mainland and lower Fraser were deep in this. Chilliwack BC recorded what they would normally see in a year of snowfall totals….in only 72 hours….today on This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For Black History Month I have a story I want to tell you about inclusiveness and humanity and broken barriers that opened doors for true talent that had previously been segregated by small minds and greed and fear and cowardice. Twelve years before Al Roker started as a weather anchor for a CBS affiliate in Syracuse, Dianne White Clatto made broadcasting history in St. Louis when, In 1962, she became the first full-time black television weather-caster in the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This was an event that no one wanted to see repeated over and over and over again like in the hilarious Bill Murray film dedicated to this date on the calendar...Groundhog Day!! The Groundhog Day gale was a severe winter storm that hit the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada on February 2, 1976. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Day in Weather History, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavor; are the names of the 5 NASA Space Shuttles. We have only 3 of them left today. Challenger was lost 3 days ago in 1986 during launch, then we lost Columbia when she attempted re-entry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, on January 31st, 1906, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Ecuador, near Esmeraldas....and now to tell you all about what happened. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A couple of weeks ago Boston was on the podcast for having suffered a tsunami of molasses in their city streets….today, their namesake the SS City of Boston passenger steamer disappeared forever in 1870...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, also referred to as the Big Blow, this intense yet compact windstorm struck the coast of Washington with great vengeance on January 29, 1921. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The blizzard of 1977 hit western New York as well as southern Ontario and kept it up through February 1st...after starting on January 28th...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today back in 1938 the Honeymoon Bridge Collapsed….. a bad omen, just a bad omen this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, at 10:10 am on the 27th a record 23 inches (58cm) of snow crippled the city, that was only after the snow started at 5:02 am on the 26th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On January 25, 1924, the first Winter Olympics took off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps. 16 countries gathered to compete in sports like figure skating, speed skating, hockey, curling and a whole lot more...the opening ceremonies were this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, in a scene freight out of the horror movie that was “2020”, on January 24th Brazil took that 110-year-old rainfall record to the woodshed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, Washington DC: 26” (66cm) at Delcarlia Reservoir, 22.4” (57cm) at the National Zoo, and 21”(53cm) in Adams Morgan. It was a punishing winter punch to the capital….see what I did there? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, on January 22, 1987, a blizzard crippled the New York-New Jersey area, but the storm did not stop the NHL’s Calgary Flames and New Jersey Devils from playing a regular-season game...and it sure did not stop the 334 fans who absolutely had to be there from being at that game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It broke a record for a tornado outbreak in January. It lasted 46 hours. 127 tornadoes touched down in 10 states...it started This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today is a collection of stories from over the centuries and how the weather affected the ceremonies. Here is a spoiler alert...total civil unrest will not appear here today...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
They were the horrific and devastating Australian Wildfires and we are picking this story up already in progress, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hartland Covered Bridge and what it endured...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On Friday, January 17th, a new all-time daily snowfall record was reported in St. John's after 76.2 cm fell, beating the previous record of 68.4 cm back on April 5, 1999…..oh it didn't stop there...no sir….not on this day in weather in history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The region was still digging out after a bitter, windy snowstorm from the 15th….but now we struggled against gusts up to 90 km/h, peaking at hurricane force, 135-km/h blasts in Howe Sound…..this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was called the Boston Molasses Disaster and also the Great Boston Molasses Flood….on January 15, 1919...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Did Mayor Mel Lastman make the right call when he brought in military assistance to help in that 1999 snowstorm? Let’s look at the facts right now….as they happened on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, on January 13, 1982, the Boeing 737-222 registered as N62AF crashed into the 14th Street Bridge over the Potomac River. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, on January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake-ravaged Haiti, with an epicentre west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, the weekend of January 11th & 12th, a potent winter storm brought record-setting rainfall, hours of freezing rain, ice buildup, localized flooding, and widespread power outages to Southern Ontario. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, it is considered to be one of the worst storms in Saskatchewan's history. The Saskatchewan Blizzard of 2007 was a winter storm that struck northeastern British Columbia, central Alberta and central Saskatchewan on Wednesday, January 10, 2007. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This crazy event had it all….including fireworks. This was NOT to celebrate the event, it was a sad and unfortunate side effect of this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, an island in East Africa and Located in the Indian Ocean, nowhere on Earth sees heavier rainstorms than the tiny French island, Reunion Island. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, on January 7, 1989, a tornado destroyed everything in its path for 15 miles across parts of southern Illinois and Indiana...it was later confirmed to have been a powerful F-4. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, on January 6, 1986, a scheduled game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Phoenix Suns made history as the first-ever "rain out" for the National Basketball Association Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The start of the winter in December 2006 was some kind of record-breaking mild across Canada...it was actually the warmest in 60 sixty years by the time it hit....this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was The Ice Storm of all Ice Storms, but was it a storm...or storms?? That’s now on This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, we found out that it was not a star at all but a planet, well the desire to get there has never wavered and we did just that in grand fashion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Since 1950, there have been 37 named storms in November, which equates to about one every other year. The standouts of these, we have covered on this podcast, but this was in January. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Every year and for every game of this kind, the weather is public enemy #1. So now kick back with your favourite new year day elixir, on a free day off work or school, with your favourite team jersey and foam finger and let me tell you about the games that were most affected by the weather on This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome back to our first ever This Day in Weather History, Year in Review Special!! This is the second part of our 2-part episode where yesterday was dedicated to the events that played a role internationally that assisted in defining what has been just a gong show of a calendar year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome to our first ever This Day in Weather History year in Review Special. Today features stories from this past year that happened around the world and in the US. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, it had been 80 years since the last time Victoria experienced a snowfall was this impactful. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The December 1969 nor'easter was a strong winter storm that mainly affected the Northeastern United States and southern Quebec that started on Christmas Day and lasted until December 28, 1969....this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 took off from Almaty International Airport, but it didn’t get very far….this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was a record-breaking snowfall that began on Christmas Day and crippled the northeastern United States to a literal standstill. This day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For Christmas Day, there are just so many compelling weather stories in history that we could not just tell one. Regardless of overall impact, anything that gets in the way or makes this day more beautiful is amplified exponentially in its scope and reverence. Today are all stories from December 25th but sailing through the years starting way back in 1776….this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Christmas Eve, 1968. As one of the most turbulent, tragic years in American history drew to a close, millions around the world were watching for something amazing to rally around and believe in. America needed a hero….they found when 3 astronauts in outer space soared around the moon becoming the first humans to orbit another world….this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Snow Campaign was one of the first major military operations of the American Revolutionary War in the southern colonies. Starting 2 days away from Christmas morning; these determined patriots had bigger gifts to deliver...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Pierre Jules César Janssen is the co-discoverer of this much less dense gas, helium. But he discovered the concept of helium through his observations of solar eclipses….this day in weather history! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
December 2008 was a particularly active month in Ontario for severe weather, to say the least...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On December 20th, 2018, a powerful wind storm swept through B.C.’s south coast, causing more damage than any previous storm, triggering the largest mobilization of B.C. Hydro resources in the province’s history…. this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Some of my faves are Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, During & After Christmas...but stuff happens all the time during and after Christmas….and that is why today’s episode is called “The Nightmare Before,m During and After Christmas”....today on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Typhoon Cobra was a tropical cyclone that struck a US Task Force during World War II in the Pacific….this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we go up up and away with the Wright Brothers when Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with their first powered aircraft….this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Malls were jammed, kids were almost off school for 2 weeks and little did anybody know in 2019 but this would be the last Christmas season like this for one or two years thanks to a deadly invasive global pandemic. Nor did anyone consider that this close to the end of the year there would be an early-summer-style tornado outbreak, like the one that happened this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today in The Battle of Fredericksburg of 1862 that started on December 11and wrapped on the 15th...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The problem with human ingenuity is the human part. It is human error that can sink a ship that is deemed unsinkable. We’ve seen this time and time and time again. But this time even after it sank, it was mixed up in 2 more incidents….that started this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It would take the better part of a week to remove hundreds of trucks and cars and clear huge snowdrifts that made the 402 and other roads across the district impassable from a storm that happened this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
If I told you that this was not the first but the FIFTH time that a snow storm caved in the roof of this domed sports stadium, you’d probably think that this was insanity. It is and it was...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Many immediately look to the January 99 melee or the many ice storms that have gripped this megalopolis, but on paper, it was actually December 11th, back in 1944, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, after three years of war, during which there had been no Nobel Peace Prize awarded, the 1917 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Thomas Fire was a massive wildfire that affected Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties, and one of the multiple wildfires that blew up in southern California during December 2017. We pick it up in progress, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, it took crews hours to clear the wreckage that was blamed on lake-effect snow, off of Erie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The city of London England boasts a population of close to 9 million….so a tornado that touches down at 11 am local time would be something really problematic, to say the least...but that’s what we are chatting about right now on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A total of 177 cm, 68" or 51/2 FEET of snow fell during a 102-hour period...and in that, it snowed hard during a total of 98 of those 102 hours….including this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, some areas reported 500mm of rain ...others closer to 1000mm. It resulted in everything you’d expect from this great of a deluge….and none of it was good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, on December 4th, 1952, heavy smog started to hover over London, England. The horrors it unleashed should have been a harbinger of what was already a runaway train that has no intention of slowing down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After being devastated in December of 2011by the Tropical Storm ‘Washi”, Super Typhoon Bopha made landfall on Mindanao, late on December 3, This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Giant was one of the oldest living things in the state and was the centrepiece of the park. It was the Klootchy Creek Giant Sitka Spruce, which once held the distinction of being the largest tree in Oregon and was the first honoree in the Oregon Heritage Tree program…..but it became past tense this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, the 50th Grey Cup, also known as the Fog Bowl, was the 1962 Grey Cup Canadian Football League championship game played between the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on December 1, 1962, at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
One thing that you simply do not hear about almost at all, even today is someone actually being struck by a meteorite. That’s what happened in small-town Alabama, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, the multi-car mess on the I-5 in 1991 was caused by the poor visibility that was caused by a large dust storm. It was an otherwise nice, sunny day in Central California when a sudden blinding dust storm trapped hundreds of holiday motorists in the San Joaquin Valley on Black Friday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, storm warnings for land were in effect by the morning of November 28 but by all accounts, the worst had already been done out on the waters of the Great Lakes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, the 1977 Grey Cup from Montreal was dubbed the “Ice Bowl”....so, sadly, winter was back again to close 1977 and it took its toll on this city and this game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today is also the anniversary of the lowest scoring NFL game in the league’s history. Now it was a Monday Night Football Game back in 2007 but as you listen to this podcast, maybe between games, on this year’s Thanksgiving 3-game bonanza; remember that no matter how bad your game might be, this one was the worst….and it happened this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, the 38th Grey Cup championship game was played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto in front of 27,101 fans, but because of the weather conditions, it came to be remembered as the Mud Bowl. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, on November 24th, 2014, strong winds downed a number of trees and cut power to thousands of people across much of southern Ontario. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The bus drivers, the students in their seats and the parents who dropped them off, were unaware that a series of tornadoes was approaching. Then, moments ahead of 7:30 am, a busload of students watched from a ditch while their bus was blown 75 yards by a tornado…..this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Live from Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton Alberta, home of the 14-time Grey Cup Champions Edmonton Eskimos, this first-time event featured two of Canada’s most legendary dynastic teams: the Edmonton Oilers vs the Montreal Canadiens...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, back in 1783, wonder, romance, beauty and physics came together resulting in the first untethered hot-air balloon flight over Paris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As is usually the case, the lake effect snow off of Lake Ontario was 3 to 6 hours later in developing than that of Lake Erie….but boy did it more than makeup for its tardiness….this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, on November 19th, 2008, the nightmare was real when more than 1,500 cars and trucks were stranded overnight on the Trans-Canada Highway near the Cobequid Pass, in Nova Scotia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Atlantic Ocean off the south coast of Newfoundland, along what is termed the “Laurentian Slope Seismic Zone”, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake shook up the island province...and exacted a follow-up tsunami. The full story starts now on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, the blizzard that came in like a lion and went out having totally devoured its prey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Puerto Rico knows hurricanes and tropical storms and why not, it’s literally the dividing line between the eastern and western Caribbean. It is right smack dab in the middle of everything. So when Hurricane Lenny walked in, you’d figure it would be a routine prep and wait. Nope….because “Wrong Way Lenny” got its moniker for a reason...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
An extremely Severe Storm, named Sidr, was a tropical cyclone that resulted in one of the worst natural disasters in Bangladesh. We will get into the details here and also put to rest the difference between the Cyclone, the Typhoon and the Hurricane...on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, on November 14, 1969, two bolts of lightning struck Apollo 12 seconds after launch, but quick thinking saved the mission from failure. Hardly routine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
To say that this event took anyone by surprise would be a slap in the face to volcanology and really just earth history in general. Volcanic activity at Nevado del Ruiz began about two million years ago, since the Early Pleistocene or Late Pliocene era, with three major eruptive periods. So there was already a history here. We picked it up on November 13, 1985...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, on November 12, 1799, Andrew Ellicott, an early American astronomer, was on earth but looking up. By looking up to see what else is out there besides just us, he witnessed the Leonids meteor shower for the first time from a ship off the Florida Keys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome to our Special Edition Episode of This Day in Weather History. This is Remembrance Day: “War and Weather”...part 2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, on November 9, a tricky line of storms moved through the province. The day proved to be one of the wackiest weather days ever in Ontario. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We focus a lot on a turning point in humankind; World War 1. WW1, also known as ‘The Great War’, was not only terrible in terms of loss of life but the weather conditions which the combatants faced. Just like yesterday’s episode from 1913, this story also features circumstances that were made so much worse because of the lack of communication. You see, the weather was, at times, as hard and deadly as the battles themselves. But in 1914, no one knew what the extent of it would be. We picked it up today, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We are looking at the most powerful and menacing of Winter weather BLIZZARD….but not any normal blizzard...this one took the power of a hurricane and blended it with the knockout blow that is snow, cold and whiteout conditions. It was The Great Lakes Storm of 1913….that started on November 7th of that year….this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, on November 6th, 2016, the area between Ladispoli and Cesano, central Italy was hit by a strong, rapidly moving long-tracked F3 tornado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, on November 4, a tropical storm developed and was named Haiyan. But then it began a period of rapid intensification that blew it up to typhoon intensity on November 5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, on November 4th, 2001, one of the more unique weather occurrences coincided with one of the conclusions of one of the most intense seasons in baseball history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, on November 2, 1743, a severe storm struck the American colonies from Virginia northward. The storm might have been a late-season hurricane. The storm became known as the ‘Eclipse Hurricane’ because it struck on the night of a lunar eclipse. Benjamin Franklin was set up to observe the eclipse that night….this didn’t help. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, on November 1, 2019, a powerful wind storm accompanied by a heavy rain event, raged through southern Quebec and caused all sorts of headaches for everyone the day after Halloween. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today on THIS SPECIAL edition EPISODE WE WILL learn about the ancient origins of Halloween in Ireland while looking at some standout weather events around the world that either helped or hindered ghosts and goblins on this special spooky day". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On October 30, 1991, the so-called “perfect storm” hit the North Atlantic producing remarkably large waves along with the New England and Canadian coasts...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sandy blows apart much of the Jersey Shore, Staten Island, Long Island, shut down the PATH system connecting NY and NJ and cost billions of dollars in total damages. This hit here...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The 1707 Hōei earthquake struck south-central Japan at 14:00 local time on 28 October….this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Baseball is traditionally played outdoors and exposed to all weather elements….and today it was the freezing cold and impossibly soaking wet that threatened the Phillies' run to the Championship they were on the cusp of completing...on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
While Sandy was only a Category 2 hurricane off the coast of the Northeastern United States and therefore not considered a MAJOR hurricane, the storm became the largest Atlantic hurricane on record….this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Baseball is traditionally played outdoors and exposed to all weather elements….and today it was the blazing HEAT when the Los Angeles Dodgers played the Houston Astros in Game 1 to open the 2017 World Series...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This way you never miss a tall tale that actually came to life when Thousands of fish fell from the sky in an area 1,000 feet long by 80 feet wide in Marksville, LA. There has to be a reasonable explanation for this and NO it wasn't aliens, I’m being serious here...on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The name is a direct reference to the direction of the winds that blow in from … you guessed it….the northeast. And a pretty decent Nor’easter lashed parts of the Maritimes from October 22 to 25th, 2014 …. Starting this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The still very new Florida Marlins team had made it to the World Series for the first time in team existence and they faced Cleveland. Marlins entered the majors in 1993 and four years in, they are on the grandest stage in the game. Cleveland on the other hand is one of the American League's eight founding franchises, and their major league incarnation of the club was founded in 1901, while originally called the Cleveland Bluebirds. So they had played through many snowstorms and interruptions...but the Marlins, fresh to major League baseball ….. And from MIAMI….had not….this should be good...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Earthquakes happen fast and without warning. When they hit hard, they can strip away any feeling of security among all living creatures. That was certainly the case back on October 20th, 1991, in Uttarkashi, India...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yes, it's another baseball story, but the world series is massive and when weather causes its delay or cancellation; it's a story to be retold...like right now on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we will look at what got this massive storm to where it made the record books and there is actually a lot going on with this one so be ready for twists and turns and a shocking event that set a record that may never be broken. Let’s light it up now, on This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On October 17, 1989, the Bay Area Series featuring the East Bay Oakland Athletics and West Bay San Francisco Giants, was scheduled to start Game 3 at 2:30 p.m. Pacific at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park on the shores of the Bay…...that did not happen this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How often can you say “The Hurricane That Hit Toronto”? It simply does not happen...so other factors had to have been at play on October 16th, 1954 when Hurricane Hazel put a royal beat down on the biggest city in Canada this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Playing conditions for the 1925 World Series between the Pirates and the Senator were challenging. Games had twice been postponed due to poor weather. Then the deciding, winner-take-all Game 7 got played in what was described as "probably the worst conditions ever for a World Series game.”...this Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What happens when a month's worth of rain falls in just hours? We will find out now because it happened this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was an otherwise normal fall day for October 12, 2006, the day before...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
They called it the "Columbus Day Big Blow". It is estimated to have been the most damaging windstorm on record west of the Cascade Mountains….and it's now on this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Other anomalies include storms of this type affecting southern regions like Portugal and especially Spain being deeper inland, but nature does and nature wants and she did This Day in Weather History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“The Great Hurricane of 1780”, also known as “Huracán San Calixto”, also referred to as “the Great Hurricane of the Antilles”, and the “1780 Disaster”.....regardless of whatever anyone called this, it is STILL, as of today, known as the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record. That happened this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, on October 9th back in 1963 and how was it that everything went so wrong for construction that seemed so right. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, Michael was the first Category 5 hurricane on record to impact the Florida Panhandle which I immediately found stunning given the propensity for powerful hurricanes to strike everywhere in the gulf. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, the 2007 Chicago marathon was everything opposite to my opening above. It was a full 26.2 mile or 42.2KM marathon, and it was on a day so oppressively and inescapably scorching that the event had to be halted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today’s episode is as frightening as it gets and as freak an occurrence as you will likely ever hear about. Happened mid-air, October 6th, 1981 this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, the “almost” 3-billion dollar hail storm happened NOT in Alberta, not in Kansas but in the cactus state of Arizona. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we hit up how FOG did the trick for General Washington….funny how these things work, on This Day in Weather History.
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In the 50 years since its merger of science offices, NOAA has become a world-class science agency that analyzes and monitors everything from the floor of our deepest ocean to the surface of our SUN. It all matters…..on this 50th anniversary day in weather history! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, a low from days prior stalls out offshore and drinks a healthy serving of Hurricane Joaquin. It was basically like hooking up a fire hose to a hydrant and let’er fly!!....all over South Carolina! And it happened on October 2, 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On This Day in Weather History, on October 1, 1987, when an earthquake shook up Whittier, California and was the largest to hit Southern California since 1971. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices