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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 4 - When BC's Rogers Pass Resembled Pompeii Mar 04, 2022

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The crew consisted of a locomotive-driven rotary snowplow and 63 men. Time was critical as westbound CPR Train Number 97 was just entering the Rocky Mountains, bound for Vancouver. Half an hour before midnight as the track was nearly clear, an unexpected avalanche from Avalanche Mountain swept down the opposite side of the track to the first fall.

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March 3 - 41 Tornadoes and ONE House Stands Mar 03, 2022

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Over six hours, tornadoes ranging from EF0 to EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, tore across Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina. This onslaught resulted in 23 deaths, and 103 injuries. Somehow, there among all the rubble, you will be stunned at how a tornado completely missed one home in the middle of hundreds of downed trees.

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March 2 - The Beast From The East Targets the UK Mar 02, 2022

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As it ran into Anticyclone Hartmut dubbed the Beast from the East, Emma's warmer moisture laden air rode over the cold dry air that had been sitting over Western Europe for a few days. This combination of events led to heavy snowfall amounts of up to 57 centimetres (22 in) in many places, including the UK.

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March 1 - The Day The Sky Fell on Toronto Mar 01, 2022

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Surrounding streets were closed including the Gardiner Expressway when, for the first time in its history, the worst fears had come true, the ice that had built up on the CN tower was now beginning to fall to the ground and onto the parked cars below. Thankfully no one was injured, especially when you consider that if these thick slabs of solid ice were falling from almost three quarters up the tower, that 415meters or 1360 FEET!!

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February 28 - Involuntary Ice Castles in Hamburg, NY Feb 28, 2022

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If anyone would have seen the paralyzing sight of homes totally entombed in close to a meter of ice, they must have been thinking “Let it Go! Let it Go!”. Hoover Beach was the shoreline under the microscope here and a couple of those homeowners commented that they truly had a nightmare of a time with this.

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February 27 - The 2010 Historic 8.8M Chile Earthquake Feb 27, 2022

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It was officially termed “Very strong” in the nation’s capital city of Santiago where the majority of the country’s population is centered. During the twentieth century, Chile was rocked by no fewer than twenty-eight major earthquakes, all with a force greater than 6.9magnitude. During the twentieth century, Chile was rocked by no fewer than twenty-eight major earthquakes, all with a force greater than 6.9magnitude.

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February 26 - "When in Rome" - When in Snows?! Feb 26, 2022

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Those who were at the Colosseum had the rare opportunity of taking photographs of two rare sites at once; snow in Rome and the largest amphitheater ever built. Schools were closed but I gotta believe that this was done to allow the kids the chance to run and play in this anomaly. According to the UK Met Office, Rome has not had this kind of cold and snow since March of 2013”.

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February 25 - The 1991 Black Rain That Fell in Turkey Feb 25, 2022

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The smoke from the burning oil wells billowed into the atmosphere and hung among the same water droplets that make up the clouds, so when that rain was released, it carried with it the crude that it blended with, resulting in the black rain. The rain, which fell in southeastern Turkey on February 25th, 1991, this day in weather history, blackened the hands and faces of people caught outside and stained their clothes.

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February 24 - The 1982 Blizzard that Marooned PEI Feb 24, 2022

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From February 22nd to 26th, 1982, a legit criteria-satisfying blizzard swept through Prince Edward Island bringing 60cm of snow, 100 kilometre an hour wind gusts and wind chills in the -35 Celsius range.

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February 23 - Typhoon Wutip Becomes the 1st Cat 5 in February Feb 23, 2022

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February 23rd, this day in weather history: Typhoon Wutip reached its peak intensity, with 10-minute sustained winds of 195 km/h (120 mph), 1-minute sustained winds of 270 km/h (165 mph), while sweeping southwest of Guam, becoming the strongest February typhoon ever on record along the way.

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