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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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May 13 - Rare and Early 2014 Southern Ontario Tornadoes May 13, 2022

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This was confirmed by Environment Canada as Ontario's first tornado of the 2014 season! This outbreak was seen long in advance and it was warned by Canada’s Governing Body for weather and climate change.

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May 12 - 1997 Mayhem in Miami with a Madcapped Twister May 12, 2022

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They called it the Great Miami Tornado of 1997, but that was really, a bit of a stretch. It was an F1 tornado, so people in Oklahoma and Kansas were likely reading about it in the next days paper, thinking “oh how adorable”. It showed up like a proper Miami celebrity. It made possible some of the most haunting pictures which actually became the subject of worldwide media coverage.

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May 11 - Welcome to the 1934 “Dust Bowl” May 11, 2022

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That year, a severe drought spread across the region. Crops were scorched and withered and died. And as that spread like a virus to the entire Great Plains collection of States, wind began to carry dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed lands. The over-plowed and abused land was too weak to recover and there was no rain so it was hopeless. It was so intense and so dangerous that it forced thousands of families from Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas and New Mexico to uproot and migrate to California.

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May 10 - The 2010 Norman Oklahoma Tornado Story May 10, 2022

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In this onslaught, there were over 60 tornadoes! Some of these twisters were large and multi-vortex in nature, meaning they had several centres of rotation within one massive system of rotation. Think tornadoes within tornadoes!!

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May 9 - The 2019 "Snow-mencement" at the University of Colorado May 09, 2022

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On Thursday May 9th, 2019, this version of their outdoor commencement service got walloped with up to 3 inches of snow, over 7.5 cm of snow on that field, on that day and on those 20,000+ people in Boulder at the University of Colorado. This is one of my favorite episodes of this podcast!

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May 8 - The ‘Super Derecho’ of 2009 May 08, 2022

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This system caused multiple wind gusts that averaged around 70 mph (over 110kph) with other incidents reported of isolated gusts clocking over 90 mph (145kph) along its destructive path. On the ground, the wind storm produced significant and often fiercely continuous pounding that spread damage over a far reaching stretch that spanned the high plains of western Kansas through the foothills of the Appalachians in eastern Kentucky.

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May 7 - In 1902 a Martinique Mainstay was Wiped off the Map May 07, 2022

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On May 7, 1902, Martinique’s Mount Pelée began the deadliest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. The complacency of the citizens played a role in the massive loss of life. When It hit, it hit hard. The following day, the city of Saint Pierre, which I can attest to, lives up to its billing as “the Paris of the Caribbean”, was wiped off the map.

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May 6 - The Epic 2017 BC Flooding May 06, 2022

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On May 4, 2017, a massive storm rolled through the valley, bringing so much rain that Mill Creek spilled its banks and nearby homes and businesses were flooded. As a result of this, on may 6th, a state of emergency was called for Kelowna and West Kelowna.

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May 5 - 1110 - The Night the Moon Disappeared May 05, 2022

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From the Peterborough (England) Chronicle on May 5, 1110:

"On the fifth night of the month of May the moon appeared shining brightly in the evening, and afterwards his light waned by little and little, and early in the night he was so wholly gone that neither light, nor circle, nor anything at all of him was to be seen, and thus it continued till near day, and then he appeared shining full and bright ; he was a fortnight old the same day : the sky was very clear all the night, and the stars shone very brightly all over the heavens, and the fruit trees were greatly injured by that night's frost."

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May 4 - The 1971 Quebec Landslide May 04, 2022

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On May 4th, at about 10:45 p.m., part of a town near Saguenay, Quebec dropped 30 metres. The crater it cut out was 300 metres across and more than 30 metres deep. It created a deep channel through which a river of liquefied clay flowed, and it swallowed 30 homes, 15 cars and a bus!! A total of 31 people were killed, most of whom were trapped in their swallowed homes or cars.

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