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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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January 24 - The Rainfall That Broke a 110-Year Record Jan 24, 2022

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The city of Belo Horizonte, host of 2014 World Cup soccer matches, saw 171 mm (6.7 in) of rainfall within a 24-hour period between the 23–24 January; this blew away a record that had stood for 110 years.

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January 23 - "Capital Punishment" Jan 23, 2022

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One of the most bizarre side stories of this winter storm is that, one month prior, because of the effects of El Nino, the eastern US experienced one of the warmest end of December on record. From January 22nd to 24th, 2016, a crippling and historic blizzard that produced up to 3 ft (91 cm) of snow in parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast United States. It was immediately recognized as a "potentially historic blizzard".

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January 22 - The New Jersey Devils’ “334 Club” Jan 22, 2022

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The game between the Calgary Flames and the New Jersey Devils on Jan. 22, 1987 wasn't expected to be a historic affair. But when close to two feet of snow dropped in on the tri-state area, it actually paved the way for what turned into one of the most unusual evenings in the history of the National Hockey League.

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January 21 - The Mind-bending 1999 US Tornado Outbreak Jan 21, 2022

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They normally only see 33 tornadoes per year...and even at that, they normally occur in the spring. It broke a record for a tornado outbreak in January. It lasted 46 hours. The whole thing took place from January 21st through the 23rd and affected all of the mid-western and southern USA.

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January 20 - US Presidential Inauguration Weather Stories Jan 20, 2022

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Today we cover the:

1961 Kennedy Inauguration, known as either “The January 1961 nor'easter” or “The Kennedy Inaugural Snowstorm”?
1841 William Henry Harrison Inauguration where the weather played a role in the day and how long he stayed in office, sadly.
1853 Franklin Pierce Inauguration that led to another fatality.
1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt Inauguration that should have, and could have, but was not, rained out.
1985 Ronald Reagan Inauguration that narrowly escaped disaster if not for the move to stage it indoors for the first time ever.

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January 19 - 2020 Opens With Australia ON FIRE!! Jan 19, 2022

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The 2019–20 Australian bushfire season came to be known as Black Summer. The Black was a tip to the mood, and the colour of the land left behind by a blaze that was, at times, burning in every province on the Island Continent nation.

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January 18 - When Hartland, NB ALMOST Lost Their Historic Bridge Jan 18, 2022

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Ice jams in New Brunswick are common but this year they were threatening to destroy the world's longest covered bridge. In this race against mother nature, authorities said a major jam had pushed ice to within two metres of the bottom of a 105-year-old bridge in Hartland, a town about 75 kilometres northwest of Fredericton.

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January 17 - The St. John's New Year Blizzard Jan 17, 2022

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It was speculated at the time that the St. John's Airport had in fact experienced its snowiest January on record with 166 cm recorded to that point.

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January 16 - The 2020 BC Storm Aftermath Jan 16, 2022

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A powerful wind and snow storm smashed into B.C.'s South Coast on January 15th that knocked out power in many regions but then that overnight the intensity faded but it was too late; on the 16th, we now had thousands of people in the Lower Mainland and on Vancouver Island in the dark.

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January 15 - Spanish Flu + Molasses + Boston Jan 15, 2022

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We were in WW1 still, and the planet was gripped by a deadly pandemic AND yet still in a North End neighbourhood of Boston, Massachusetts, a large storage tank filled with molasses burst and the effect was nothing short of a sticky soiled tsunami!

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