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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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December 9 - The Deadly California Thomas Fire Dec 09, 2022

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The blaze started fast and moved even quicker; reaching the city of Ventura, where in the span of one night, over five hundred residences were destroyed. At its worst, the Thomas Fire involved over 8,500 firefighters in the fight to contain the blaze. This is actually still the largest mobilization of firefighters for any one wildfire in California history.

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December 8 - The Freeway Pileup That Covered 3 States! Dec 08, 2022

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December 8th...2016...this day in weather history; we had one storm, resulting in 3 major pileups in 3 different states, with 2 happening on the same Interstate Highway. The biggest of the pileups involved 50 vehicles and we had am empty and stranded school bus used as a make-shift triage.

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December 7 - The Tornado that Tangled with London England Dec 07, 2022

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On the morning of December7th, 2006, the UK was being walked over by a deep and strong Atlantic low pressure system. Along its path, it injured 6 people, and caused moderate to severe damage to at least 100 properties.

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December 6 - Lucan Ontario Buried Beneath 5 1/2 FEET of Snow Dec 06, 2022

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At the time local radio stations were announcing the storm, like I said, as a “Snowmageddon”, a cute play on the mix of snow and armageddon. It was cute and easy but really does no one any good. A total of 177 cm, 68" or 51/2 FEET of snow fell during a 102-hour period...and in that, it snowed hard during a total of 98 of those 102 hours….including this day in weather history.

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December 5 - 1000mm Deluge Drowns Southern Thailand Dec 05, 2022

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According to the Thai Meteorological Department’s Automatic Weather Station (AWS), over 500 millilitres of rain fell over a 7-day period starting on December 1st and lasting through the 7th in 2016. It would be recognized as the worst flood in over 30 years in the southern part of the country.

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December 4 - The 1952 Killer Smog of England Dec 04, 2022

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This story was a featured in the hit television series The Crown. The Great Smog is the central event of season 1, episode 4 on the popular Netflix program. Fans of the sci-fi cult classic Doctor Who, will remember when "The Great Smog" was the setting of the audio play "The Creeping Death". And the The Boris Starling novel Visibility is also set in this 1952 smog event.

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December 3 - The 2012 Super Typhoon Bopha (Pablo) Dec 03, 2022

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After being devastated in December of 2011by the Tropical Storm ‘Washi”, Super Typhoon Bopha made landfall on Mindanao, late on December 3, as a Category 5 super typhoon with winds of 175 mph (280 km/h).

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December 2 - The 1952 Grey Cup: "The Fog Bowl" Dec 02, 2022

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It was to be celebrated as the 50th Grey Cup Championship. It was played in 1962, in Toronto at an outdoor stadium, that laid right along the shores of Lake Ontario. Already sounds like a bad idea and It remains the only Grey Cup game ever suspended during play...starting on Saturday the 1st and wrapping up on Sunday, the 2nd.

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December 1 - The 10-Car Ohio Train Derailment Disaster Dec 01, 2022

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For the storm to create so much chaos that Ten train cars went off their tracks in the middle of a busy day in Ohio, this was a storm that needed to be investigated further. The crashed train cars narrowly missed the main electrical feed that provides power to Amherst's 12,000 residents.

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November 30 - FIRST Human in History Struck by Meteorite Nov 30, 2022

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Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges, who was asleep on her living room couch at the time the object came crashing into and through her house. Normally we hear of meteorites falling into the ocean or driving into one of Earth's more open and remote places; so this was a crazy thing to even consider happening.

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