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This Day in Weather History

The Weather Network

"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

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6:38

September 20 - "Igor" Stomps All Over Newfoundland

This Day in Weather History ·

2022/09/20

Within 24 hours, Hurricane Igor would become the worst storm of the modern era to strike the province. This is where we start today...this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:39

September 19 - "Come From Away": The Weather Story

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2022/09/19

Gander is a wildly picturesque small Atlantic Canadian town. In 2001, its population was barely over 9500 so when they took in nearly 6,700 frightened strangers who had no plans to land in the North Atlantic province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Tis was the day when the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks forced 38 planes to land here. Then Hurricane Gabrielle came in as a North Atlantic hurricane that caused flooding in both Florida and Newfoundland in that very same September of 2001. Learn more about

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6:49

September 18 - When Maria AND the Response Crippled...

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2022/09/18

But Hurricane Maria in 2017 was very much a Puerto Rico Story. It was the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in more than 80 years. It wiped out homes, roads, and bridges, while also knocking out power across the entire island. Puerto Rico is what is referred to as an unincorporated territory of the United States. This means that this gorgeous island of Puerto Rico is neither a sovereign nation nor a U.S. state; and they were treated as such in the aftermath by all accounts. Learn more about

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6:23

September 17, 2022 - NASA Introduces “The Space Shuttle”

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2022/09/17

On September 17, 1976, NASA publicly unveiled its first space shuttle, and in the most appropriate move ever made by NASA in their history...according to sci-fi nerds like me...they called it The Enterprise! And even though Enterprise was just a test vehicle that never reached space, the simple fact that it was here now, signaled the true beginning of the space shuttle era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:45

September 16, 2022 - The Hurricane That Hit Central...

This Day in Weather History ·

2022/09/16

The Okeechobee Hurricane still stands today after all this time as one of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the Atlantic basin. Most of the damage from that storm was where the population had centered; in Dade and Broward counties, claiming the lives of 2500...but in it’s entirety, but killed over 4,000 people from its path though the Caribbean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:32

September 15, 2022 - When "Sally" Slammed the Gulf Coast

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2022/09/15

Sally was called by NOAA “an erratic hurricane, both in its track and intensity”, that made landfall along the coast of Alabama at category 2 intensity. There was over 30 inches of rain in Pensacola from this deluge and that equated to what said to have been four months of rain in a tiny window of only four hours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:42

September 14, 2022 - "And They're Off"! - The Great...

This Day in Weather History ·

2022/09/14

In 1957, the Soviets shocked the United States by becoming the first nation to launch a satellite into orbit around the earth when they successfully put Sputnik into orbit. Then, on September 14 of 1959, a Soviet rocket crashed into the moon’s surface, becoming the first man-made object sent from earth to reach the lunar surface. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:51

September 13, 2022 - Hurricane Ike Grounds Galveston...

This Day in Weather History ·

2022/09/13

At its time, Ike was the second-costliest in United States history. Ike was blamed for at least 195 deaths, 113 of whom were in the US. Due to just how massive Ike was, there was clear devastation stretching from coastal Louisiana all the way to Corpus Christi, Texas. Ike would also cause flooding and significant damage along the Mississippi coastline through the Florida Panhandle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:48

September 12, 2022 - The 1857 Ship that Sunk the Economy

This Day in Weather History ·

2022/09/12

She was called the SS Central America, known as the Ship of Gold. Today we are recounting the story of when she sank in a hurricane, taking with her 425 of her 578 passengers and crew and 30,000 pounds (14,000 kg) of gold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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September 11, 2022 - The September 11th Episode

This Day in Weather History ·

2022/09/11

Hawaii’s tourism is driven by eternally active volcanoes and the site of the first ever attack on US soil when Pearl Harbour was bombed by Japan in WW2. This storm happened on the date that would see the only other attack on US soil, when that happened in 2001. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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September 10, 2022 - Betsy: The First $Billion Hurricane

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2022/09/10

On August 29th, 2021 New Orleans was battered to a pulp by Hurricane Ida. 16 years prior to that very day, they were drowned by the effects of Katrina. Today , however, is actually THE day when New Orleans would effectively change forever; after Hurricane Betsy, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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September 9, 2022 - The 1775 Newfoundland Hurricane

This Day in Weather History ·

2022/09/09

This massive storm is believed to have killed at least 4,000 people in Newfoundland, making it one of the top ten deadliest Atlantic hurricanes, the deadliest hurricane to strike Canada and it was also the first one in Canada’s recorded history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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September 8, 2022 - The 1952 Launch of a CBC Legend

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2022/09/08

Percy Saltzman was already a veteran meteorologist. Likely he had no idea that he would go on to be the first face on Canadian TV when CBC TV inaugurated English language broadcasting in Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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September 7, 2022 - The 1991 Hail Hammering of...

This Day in Weather History ·

2022/09/07

With tennis ball sized hailstones raining down on Calgary, for its time it was the most destructive hail storm in Canadian history. For 30 minutes these large masses of mangled congealed ice rocks hammered down on the city and not only damaged homes & cars, there were destroyed crops and trees that were split open and even killed birds while they were still in flight! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:58

September 6, 2022 - The 1666 "Great Fire of London"

This Day in Weather History ·

2022/09/06

This deadly and destructive fire swept through the central parts of the city from Sunday, 2 September to Thursday, 6 September in the year 1666! Among the collateral damage was a total gutting of the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall, once the centre to the Roman Empire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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September 5, 2022 - Cat 5 "Irma" Crushes the Caribbean

This Day in Weather History ·

2022/09/05

Irma was the most intense hurricane to strike the continental United States since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the first major hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Wilma in the same year, and the first Category 4 hurricane to strike the state since Charley in 2004. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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September 4, 2022 - Hurricane Felix Flexes on Nicaragua

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2022/09/04

When Felix made landfall, it struck just south of the border between Nicaragua and Honduras with sustained winds at 260 kilometers per hour (160 miles per hour). Due to the extent of the damage and the amount of people killed by this storm in Nicaragua, the name FELIX was officially retired by the World Meteorological Organization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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September 3, 2022 - The 1999 Hwy 401 Fog Disaster

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2022/09/03

On the morning of Friday, September 3, 1999, a malfunction at the Windsor Airport Observation Station failed to detect foggy conditions, and subsequently no fog warnings were issued. The malfunction was not discovered until it was too late. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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September 2, 2022 - The Labour Day Levelling of South...

This Day in Weather History ·

2022/09/02

The "Labor Day Hurricane" of 1935 was one of four Category 5 hurricanes in history to strike the continental United States, along with Hurricane Andrew in 1992, Hurricane Camille in 1969, and Hurricane Michael in 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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September 1, 2022 - Dorian Devastates The Bahamas

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2022/09/01

It is considered to be the worst natural disaster in that country's history. It was most assuredly the most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the Bahamas. As a newly christened F5 category storm, Dorian struck first made landfall in the Bahamas in Elbow Cay, just east of Abaco Island, on September 1 of 2019, this day in weather history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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