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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February 8 - The Worst Storm in Canadian Railwa...
On Jan. 30, 1947, a mighty blizzard steam rolled over all of southern Saskatchewan. It rendered it paralyzed, forcing the entire region to remain totally shut down.
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February 7 - The 2016 Costly Closure of Manitob...
On February 7, 2026 Highway 75 was closed by a blizzard. It reopened the next day on February 8th but still many routes stayed shut and the losses in dollars kept mounting by the minute.
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February 6 - Before January 2022, THIS Was THE ...
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!!
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February 5 - The Tragic 2017 Afghanistan Avalan...
Snowfall caused the many areas of the entire country of Afghanistan; it was a wipeout, a total wipeout and it was a nightmare.
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February 4 - Chilliwack, BC: A Year’s Worth of ...
Chilliwack BC recorded what they would normally see in a year of snowfall totals, but in only 72 hours!!
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February 3 - "Black History Month": First Blac...
Dianne White Clatto made broadcasting history in St. Louis when she became the first full-time black television weathercaster in the US in 1962, on this day in weather history.
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February 2 - The "Groundhog Day" Story
This is a story about a terrifying winter storm that hit the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada on February 2, 1976…. Groundhog Day.
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February 1 - "Weather and Space Exploration": T...
Challenger was lost 3 days ago in 1986 during launch, then we lost Columbia, when she attempted re-entry on THIS day in weather History.
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January 31 - The 1906 Ecuador-Colombia Earthquake
On January 31st, 1906, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake, and follow-up tsunami, stuck off the coast of Ecuador, near Esmeraldas.
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January 30 - The 1870 Disappearance of The City...
The SS "City of Boston" passenger steamer disappeared forever in the North Atlantic Ocean en route from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Liverpool in January 1870....on this day in weather history.
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January 29 - The 1921 Great Olympic "Blowdown"
They called it the Great Olympic Blowdown but had nothing to do with the sporting event; this was in reference to the mountains of the US Pacific Northwest in the state of Washington.
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January 28 - The Legendary "Blizzard of ‘77"
The legendary and memorable 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.
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January 27 - The Niagara Falls Honeymoon Bridge...
Today back in 1938 the Honeymoon Bridge Collapsed…..bad omen, just a bad omen when you consider that this happened in the HONEYMOON capital of the world back then.
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January 26 - Why Chicago Blizzard Snow Got Ship...
The Chicago blizzard of 1967 struck northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana on January 26–27, 1967. Still the greatest snowfall in one storm in Chicago history as of February 2020
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January 25 - The First Ever "Winter Olympics" B...
On January 25, 1924, the first Winter Olympics took off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps.
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January 24 - The Rainfall That Broke a 110-Year...
On January 24th Brazil took a 110 year old rainfall record off the shelf in an epic way!
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January 23 - "Capital Punishment"
It was a punishing winter punch to the capital; Washington DC: 26” (66cm)
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January 22 - The New Jersey Devils’ “334 Club”
On Jan, 22, 1987, a blizzard shut down 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. Nor did it stop the 334 fans who absolutely, positively had to be there!
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January 21 - The Mind-bending 1999 US Tornado O...
127 tornadoes touched down in 10 states...it started This Day in Weather History.
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January 20 - US Presidential Inauguration Weath...
Today is a collection of stories from over the centuries and how the weather affected the ceremonies. !(spoiler alert)...total civil unrest will not appear here today.
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January 19 - 2020 Opens With Australia ON FIRE!!
This is the fire season in Australia but this was a period of unusually intense bushfires in many parts of the country, and they were at their zenith through December 2019 & January 2020.
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January 18 - When Hartland, NB ALMOST Lost Thei...
Hartland, New Brunswick, is home to the world's longest covered bridge,[3] at 1,282 feet (391 m) long, it crosses the Saint John River and an ice jam threatened to take it all down!
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January 17 - The St. John's New Year Blizzard
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...but it was nowhere near done yet!
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January 16 - The 2020 BC Storm Aftermath
By January 16th, the South Coast had received a dumping of close to 40 centimetres of snow in some areas in a matter of days, and there was a fresh new warning for up to 10 more!
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January 15 - Spanish Flu + Molasses + Boston
It was called the Boston Molasses Disaster and also the "Great Boston Molasses Flood" when it oozed all over January 15, 1919.
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