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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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March 14 - The 2008 Georgia Dome Tornado Mar 14, 2022

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The National Weather Service had issued a tornado warning for the Atlanta area at 9:26 p.m. that night after radar showed the signatures of a storm capable of producing tornadoes. And this was registering on the map about six miles west of Atlanta.

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March 13 - The Wickedness of Winter Storm 'Ulmer" Mar 13, 2022

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The wind was a total erasing of the previous mark; in this storm a gust of 80 mph ( almost 130kph) was measured around noon mountain time on the 13th while heavy snow was falling. The deepest Low pressure of 979.01mb bested the previous city's old record-low pressure of 979.9 millibars set on Feb. 25, 1998. And the wind gust broke the old record for highest non-thunderstorm wind gust that was only 63 mph set 10 years prior to this in 2009.

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March 12 - Kid Gamer Gets Pinned Under Fallen Tree Mar 12, 2022

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As a result of this storm and its powerful wind, 10-year-old Vancouver Island boy, Laken Platt, was lucky to be alive after he became trapped beneath a tree that fell onto his house!! He is a junior gamer who, like all other kids his age is addicted to a screen while likely also wearing noise cancelling headphones, totally immersed in his game, no idea of his surroundings.

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March 11 - The 2011 Sendai Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Meltdown Mar 11, 2022

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It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began way back in the year 1900. This 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku was a magnitude 9.0–9.1 undersea "mega-thrust" earthquake, meaning simply that this is a powerful quake that happens at a very precarious spot on the planet’s crust; subduction zones at destructive convergent plate boundaries. And it took down a nuclear reactor plant.

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March 10 - 1884: The Birth of Tornado Prediction Mar 10, 2022

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Finley would go on to write the first known book on the subject of the tornado as well as many other manuals and booklets. This event happened during what was the beginning of experimental tornado predictions on March 10th, this day in weather history.

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March 9 - “Weather and War”: 1945 Air Bombing of Tokyo Mar 09, 2022

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Early in the morning of March 9th, 1945, American B-29s dropped a flurry of bombs, including napalm and magnesium incendiaries, over the packed residential districts along the Sumida River in eastern Tokyo. This destroyed large portions of the capital while also killing 100,000 civilians.

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March 8 - The Cataclysmic 1669 Eruption of Mt. Etna Mar 08, 2022

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The rumbles of this mountain had increased with frequency and intensity and then it happened. There was not just one; there were several eruptions over the weeks that followed this day in weather history, killing more than 20,000 confused and unprepared people, leaving virtually everyone else homeless.

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March 7 - The Great North American Blizzard of '08 Mar 07, 2022

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Along its path it wreaked havoc on the east coast of the United States with heavy rain, damaging winds and tornadoes, causing locally significant damage. The intensity and longevity of this monster resulted in at least 17 deaths across four US states and three Canadian provinces, but not by the snow, rather along the southernmost tail of the front in weather-related accidents and tornadoes.

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March 6 - The ‘Ash Wednesday Storm’ of ‘62 Mar 06, 2022

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50 years before Sandy's devastation, the Great Atlantic Coastal Storm, from Mar 5 – 9, 1962, battered the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. This storm was particularly bad because it did not move for three days. In the end, the storm killed 40 people, injured over 1,000 more, destroyed 1,793 houses, and damaged another 16,782.

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March 5 - The Macedonian Airlines Flight That Never Made It Mar 05, 2022

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This is another tragedy that should have been prevented. Yes, another event where negligence led to a disaster. Only two seconds after takeoff, the aircraft started to shake violently. The plane rose to approximately 50 feet. Because they were essentially skimming the ground as it was, when they rolled to the right, the plane’s wing struck the end of the runway at a 90-degree angle.

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