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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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7:08

March 24 - Astronaut Shannon Lucid Record Breaker and...

This Day in Weather History ·

2022/03/24

March 24th, 1996, U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid transferred to the Russian space station Mir from the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for a planned five-month stay. Lucid was the first female U.S. astronaut to live in a space station. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:25

March 23 - The 1995 $4 Billion Dollar Flood in...

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2022/03/23

They used to talk about the legendary 1862 flood of the Salinas River. But that legend was replaced when in this storm, the river exceeded its previous measured record crest by more than four feet or 1 and a quarter meters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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March 22 - The 2014 Washington Mudslide that Killed 43

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2022/03/22

Prior to this tragic day, there had been weeks of heavy rain. But what no one could have predicted was that a massive, fast-moving wall of mud and debris would suddenly come crashing down the hillside like a runaway freight train, rolling over and destroying 49 homes claiming the lives of 43 souls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:53

March 21 - When 2/3 of North America Suddenly Went...

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2022/03/21

A well respected climatologist out of the United States called this March 2012 heatwave (quote) “the most extraordinary temperature anomaly in North American history”; this heat dome covered 2-thirds of all of North America! It was the Spring Equinox yet this last day of winter resembled something closer to a midsummer day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:32

March 20 - One of the Worst Colorado Blizzards Since...

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2022/03/20

The Denver International Airport was closed and that stranded about 4,000 travellers. The weight of the snow caused a 40-foot or 12 meter gash in a portion of the roof, forcing the evacuation of that section of the main terminal building. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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March 19 - BC Burns Through Over 100 Temperature...

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2022/03/19

In BC in 2019, things were already wrecked; January was well above seasonal, February then went brutally cold and as for March, it was threatening to rewrite the record books for drought. One of the hottest spots in the province was in Pitt Meadows as they hit a staggering 19.5C.; and that broke a record that had stood for 7 decades!! In Chilliwack, an almost 125-year-old record was erased! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:40

March 18 - 1925: THE Worst Tornado in US History

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2022/03/18

This outbreak killed 695 people, injured some 13,000 people, and caused $17 million in property damage. More than 500 of the total 695 people who perished were killed in southern Illinois, including 234 in Murphysboro and 127 in West Frankfort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:54

March 17 - St. Patrick's Day + Tornado Warnings +...

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2022/03/17

Two things you normally do not associate with the Aloha State are tornadoes and St. Patrick’s day. But Two tornado warnings were issued in the Hawaiian Islands on this day. So this occurrence of 2 tornado warnings on the Big Island was so unusual primarily because there had only ever been 2 tornado warnings ever for the state as long as record keeping began. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:38

March 16 - Earliest Ontario Tornado on Record

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2022/03/16

Almost to the day, back in 1948 was the previous mark for the earliest tornado in the province. It was on a march 19th in Windsor. So it took 68 years for this record mark to come off the board. This tornado registered EF1 and hit at about 10 minutes to 4pm in Grey Country Ontario. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:53

March 15 - An 11-Month Flood Warning in "Mizzou"

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2022/03/15

This historic flooding was one of the costliest U.S. inland flooding events on record and it included and Air Force Base in Nebraska. In the end, this 2 week deluge of disaster caused $2.9 billion in total damages, split between 2 States the most affected: $1.6B in the Hawkeye state of Iowa and $1.3B in Cornhusker Nation, Nebraska. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:25

March 14 - The 2008 Georgia Dome Tornado

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2022/03/14

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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March 13 - The Wickedness of Winter Storm 'Ulmer"

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2022/03/13

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:37

March 12 - Kid Gamer Gets Pinned Under Fallen Tree

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2022/03/12

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:13

March 11 - The 2011 Sendai Earthquake, Tsunami and...

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2022/03/11

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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6:15

March 10 - 1884: The Birth of Tornado Prediction

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2022/03/10

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:49

March 9 - “Weather and War”: 1945 Air Bombing of Tokyo

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2022/03/09

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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March 8 - The Cataclysmic 1669 Eruption of Mt. Etna

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2022/03/08

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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March 7 - The Great North American Blizzard of '08

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2022/03/07

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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March 6 - The ‘Ash Wednesday Storm’ of ‘62

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2022/03/06

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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March 5 - The Macedonian Airlines Flight That Never...

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2022/03/05

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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