This Day in Weather History
"This Day In Weather History" is a daily podcast from The Weather Network that features unique and informative stories written and produced by host Chris Mei. Weather happens every day. It can be sunny, cloudy, stormy or maybe just unsettled, but it is always happening! It’s when severe weather strikes that it captures the attention of those affected…and the imagination of everyone else who follows the story. So it is with good reason to expect that after over a century of news and weather information gathering and record keeping, there would be a "special" weather or natural phenomena event to mark each day of a calendar. Do you remember the first recorded tornado in Canadian history? No, you don’t because none of us were there...so we dive into that! How about when Prince played the Super Bowl halftime show? It’s possibly the best performance ever for that event….and the backstory made it all the more special! Or how about the 25th Anniversary Woodstock Festival back in 1994? It’s all here - all year - in one podcast.... "This Day In Weather History"!
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May 18 - That 1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption!
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.
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May 17 - The Crash That Cancelled the 2001 Open...
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.
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May 16 - Extra! Extra! There is a HOLE in The O...
The alarm was sounded in the May 16th, 1985 issue of NATURE Magazine; it was confirmed detection of what was abnormally low levels of ozone over the South Pole. Planet Earth was now in BIG trouble.
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May 15 - The 1951 Hurricane Able
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.
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May 14 - The VERY Late 1986 Season Southern Alb...
They 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.
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May 13 - Rare and Early 2014 Southern Ontario T...
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; this was felt full-on in Southern Ontario on this day in weather history.
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May 12 - 1997 Mayhem in Miami with a Madcapped ...
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!!
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May 11 - Welcome to the 1934 “Dust Bowl”
It was on May 11, back in 1934, when a massive storm sent millions of tons of topsoil flying from across the country.
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May 10 - The 2010 Norman Oklahoma Tornado Story
The May 10–13, 2010 tornado outbreak affected large areas of Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas.
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May 9 - The 2019 "Snow-mencement" at the Univer...
Today is the curious case that unfolded for the University of Colorado's Class of 2019 spring graduates when they were set to take their seats with a stadium full of guests.
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May 8 - The ‘Super Derecho’ of 2009
It sounds like the name of a famous Spanish Matador, but the Derecho is one of those weather events that is actually a lot worse than it sounds, i’ll explain right now what it is and what it did, this day in weather history.
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May 7 - In 1902 a Martinique Mainstay was Wiped...
Mount Pelée is a gorgeous 4,500-foot mountain on the north side of the Caribbean island of Martinique. But it has a deadly and sinister history we tell today.
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May 6 - The Epic 2017 BC Flooding
In 2017, the interior experienced the worst flooding ever. They were talking about this one in the Okanagan for months after.
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May 5 - 1110 - The Night the Moon Disappeared
I will now take you back in time to the year 1110 in Old England and together we will witness a miracle that is sure to amaze us all as it did back then on this day in weather history.
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May 4 - The 1971 Quebec Landslide
On May 4, 1971 a low that covered most of Quebec brought relentless rain for three consecutive days, triggering the disappearance of a whole community this day in weather history.
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May 3 - The Terrifying Fort McMurray Evacuation...
On May 1, 2016, a wildfire began southwest of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada; by the 3rd it got a whole world worse.
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May 2 - 2019 and Ottawa River's Highest Level Ever
The record setting flooding along the Ottawa River was named Canada’s top weather story in 2019
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May 1 - Happy Anniversary Environment Canada!
One of Canada’s oldest government institutions, period, is the Meteorological Service of Canada; It Launched May 1st of 1871.
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April 30 - The 1997 Red River “Flood of the Cen...
Flooding in Manitoba’s Red River Valley is not unusual, so if you have an event here that is remembered as “unusual”, it would have to be really bad by most other location standards.
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April 29 - Spring Flooding: Quebec’s Major Weat...
Hope was never a luxury for anyone in Quebec who was affected by the flooding that either damaged or totally washed out 760 roads and highways, this day in weather history.
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April 28 - Baseball Sized Hail at a Baseball Game!
During the afternoon and evening hours of April 28th 2012 widespread hail damage to vehicles, houses and businesses was reported in and around the St Louis Metro.
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April 27 - The 2008 Fort Albany Flooding & Evac...
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 on this day in weather history.
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April 26 - The 1991 Deadly and Destructive "And...
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.
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April 25 - 2015 Saw Mount Everest’s Deadliest A...
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.
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April 24 - The 2018 Record New Brunswick 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!
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