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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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September 20 - "Igor" Stomps All Over Newfoundland Sep 20, 2022

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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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September 19 - "Come From Away": The Weather Story Sep 19, 2022

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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.

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September 18 - When Maria AND the Response Crippled Puerto Rico Sep 18, 2022

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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.

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September 17, 2022 - NASA Introduces “The Space Shuttle” Sep 17, 2022

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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.

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September 16, 2022 - The Hurricane That Hit Central Florida Sep 16, 2022

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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.

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September 15, 2022 - When "Sally" Slammed the Gulf Coast Sep 15, 2022

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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.

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September 14, 2022 - "And They're Off"! - The Great Space Race Sep 14, 2022

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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.

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September 13, 2022 - Hurricane Ike Grounds Galveston to a Pulp Sep 13, 2022

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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.

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September 12, 2022 - The 1857 Ship that Sunk the Economy Sep 12, 2022

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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.

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September 11, 2022 - The September 11th Episode Sep 11, 2022

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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.

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