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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March 29 - A “Funny” Thing Happened on the Way ...
On March 29, 2015, an Air Canada Airbus A320-211 landed VERY short of the runway in Halifax and was severely damaged.
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March 28 - The Massive Hail that Killed in Texas
On this day in weather history, this was the first hail-related fatality in the United States since 1979.
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March 27 - The 1964 Alaska 9.2 Earthquake and T...
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.
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March 26 - The Mighty Gust That "Wiped Out" Our...
A 172 km section of The Trans-Canada was closed from Truro to Moncton and about 450 snow plows and salt trucks were deployed to work around the clock, this day in weather history.
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March 25 - Weather And War: Operation Iraqi Fr...
During Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003 a major dust storm swept through Baghdad and across the greater Tigris and Euphrates valleys.
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March 24 - Astronaut Shannon Lucid Record Break...
This month features "International Woman's' Day"; today we meet US Astronaut Shannon Lucid.
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March 23 - The 1995 $4 Billion Dollar Flood in ...
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.
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March 22 - The 2014 Washington Mudslide that Ki...
A portion of a hill in Washington State suddenly collapsed burying a whole neighborhood within a small community.
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March 21 - When 2/3 of North America Suddenly W...
This heat wave was off the in every conceivable way possible.
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March 20 - One of the Worst Colorado Blizzards ...
The metro area and Colorado’s Front Range were totally overwhelmed with heavy snow, augmented by an up-sloping component that buried areas in the foothills...several FEET deep!!
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March 19 - BC Burns Through Over 100 Temperatur...
After a day where 32 records fell, today another jaw-dropping 42 new record high temperatures were set across the province.
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March 18 - 1925: THE Worst Tornado in US History
It was called the “Tri-State Tornado,”and it began its northeast track in Ellington, Missouri, but southern Illinois was the hardest hit...this day in weather history.
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March 17 - St. Patrick's Day + Tornado Warnings...
On March 17th - There was not one but 2 Tornado Warnings in Hawaii on this St. Patrick’s Day!
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March 16 - Earliest Ontario Tornado on Record
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.
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March 15 - An 11-Month Flood Warning in "Mizzou"
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.
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March 14 - The 2008 Georgia Dome Tornado
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."
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March 13 - The Wickedness of Winter Storm 'Ulmer"
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.
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March 12 - Kid Gamer Gets Pinned Under Fallen T...
On Monday, March 12, 2012, powerful winds and even stronger gusts blasted away at Vancouver Island and the rest of the South Coast knocking out power to thousands and forcing the cancellation of many BC Ferries' sailings.
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March 11 - The 2011 Sendai Earthquake, Tsunami ...
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.
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March 10 - 1884: The Birth of Tornado Prediction
He was curious, he was a pioneer and he was the first to truly study tornadoes and in 1884, Mr. John Park Finley published his research in the journal "Science".
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March 9 - “Weather and War”: 1945 Air Bombing o...
On March 9, 1945, 300 American bombers dropped almost 2,000 tons of incendiaries on Tokyo, Japan, this day in weather history.
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March 8 - The Cataclysmic 1669 Eruption of Mt. ...
On March 8, 1669, Mount Etna, on the island of Sicily in modern-day Italy, began rumbling. Every legend has a beginning and for Mount Etna, that was on this day in weather history.
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March 7 - The Great North American Blizzard of '08
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.
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March 6 - The ‘Ash Wednesday Storm’ of ‘62
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.
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March 5 - The Macedonian Airlines Flight That N...
On Mar. 5, 1993, Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301 was scheduled to go from Macedonia to Switzerland; it did not make it.
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