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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December 4 - The 1952 Killer Smog of England
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.
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December 3 - The 2012 Super Typhoon Bopha (Pablo)
Super Typhoon Bopha, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Pablo, was the strongest tropical cyclone on record to ever affect the southern Filipino island of Mindanao.
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December 2 - The 1952 Grey Cup: "The Fog Bowl"
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.
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December 1 - The 10-Car Ohio Train Derailment D...
Ohio was beat upon with snow and ice in the midst of a winter storm that slammed this day in weather history.
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November 30 - FIRST Human in History Struck by ...
The space rock was a meteorite weighing 8.5 pounds (almost 4kg) and measured seven inches in length. The victim was a Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges.
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November 29 - The Deadly Black Friday Dust Stor...
The multi-car mess on the I-5 in 1991 was caused by the poor visibility that was caused by a large dust storm.
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November 28 - It Was The Wreck of the SS Mataafa
Looking back, it has been remembered as “The Mataafa Storm of 1905” and still stands up today as one of the worst of its kind to ever hit the Great Lakes.
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November 27 - The 1977 Grey Cup "Ice Bowl"
The 1977 Grey Cup from Montreal was dubbed the “Ice Bowl”!
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November 26 - The Weather "Sacked" the Steelers...
Today is the anniversary of the lowest scoring NFL game in the league’s history. It was a Monday Night Football Game back in 2007 that came to be known as "Muddy Night Football".
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November 25 - The 1950 "Mud Bowl" Grey Cup
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".
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November 24 - That Craaaaazy November Wind!
On November 24th, 2014, strong winds downed a number of trees and cut power to thousands of people across much of southern Ontario, this day in weather history.
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November 23 - A Record Snow for Labrador!
The November 23, 2020 Labrador Snow event was an historic early season snowfall and went straight to the record books.
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November 22 - The First Ever NHL Regulation Out...
It was a bitterly cold November 22, 2003, when the national Hockey League staged its first ever regular season outdoor game...the Heritage Classic.
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November 21 - The 2018 California "Camp" Fire
The California wildfire known as the “Camp Fire” went on to become the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in the state’s history, and the most expensive natural disaster in the world of the year 2018 in terms of insured losses.
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November 20 - The 2014 CanAm Lake Effect Wipeout
A very favourable set up for heavy lake effect snow set over the lower Great Lakes and lasted Wednesday through Thursday, Nov 19 and 20.
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November 19 - Terror on the Trans-Canada
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...this day in weather history.
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November 18 - The 1929 Newfoundland Earthquake ...
Off the south coast of Newfoundland, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake shook it up and exacted a follow up tsunami.
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November 17 - The Great Buffalo Blizzard of 2014
The epic November lake effect event will be remembered as one of the most significant winter events in Buffalo’s snowy history.
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November 16 - Nicaragua's 2020 Nightmare
It made landfall as a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds near 250kph; Hurricane Iota is considered to have been the strongest storm to hit Nicaragua in the country's history.
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November 15 - The Tragic Tropical Cyclone that ...
An extremely Severe Storm, named "Sidr", was a tropical cyclone that resulted in one of the worst natural disasters in Bangladesh history.
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November 14 - When Apollo 12 was Struck By Ligh...
On November 14, 1969, two bolts of lightning struck Apollo 12 seconds after launch, but quick thinking saved the mission from failure.
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November 13 - The 1985 Colombia Volcano Eruption
On November 13, 1985, a small eruption produced an enormous landslide that buried and destroyed the town of Armero in Tolima.
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November 12 - The Record Breaking Venice Flood
Venice was on its knees as it suffered through some of the worst flooding in its history. 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.
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November 11 - "Weather and War": Remembrance Da...
It has been over 100 years since World War 1 and more than any other war, this one is recognized for its trench warfare.
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November 10 - "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
Canadian singer and songwriter Gordon Lightfoot recorded "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" on his 1976 album "Summertime Dream" after reading an article, in an issue of Newsweek....this is rest of the story.
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