Hurricane Camille was the second most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the United States. It made landfall on August 17th, near Waveland, Mississippi. But that's not HOW it started and that's far from ALL it did.

The Category 5 hurricane is a beast unlike most other natural phenomena on Earth; Florida took on head on and the devastation was grizzly.

It was the second tornado to hit Williams Lake, Ontario in fifteen months, but this one was the "knock-out" punch.

The Hampstead Storm of August 14th, 1975 unleashed a brutal and relentless rainfall totalling a paralyzing 170.8mm of rain in under three hours!

Today we look at how the wind took over at the Indiana State Fair moments before the band Sugarland were to come on stage.

It may not have been LucasArts or Disney or Pixar technology but the craftiness of the special effects used in a 1939 film was groundbreaking and "The Wizard of Oz" introduced movie-goers to the tornado.

Today we revisit nearly 250 years ago when one of the greatest live giving vents to the centre of the earth jumped to life for he first time; the first ever eruption of Mount Papandayan back in 1772.

On August 10th, the United Kingdom recorded its first-ever temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, when it reached 101(38.5C)...it was also the country’s highest ever recorded temperature.

The Nagasaki atom bomb was scheduled to drop on the 11th, but the forecast was for terrible weather. This prompted the biggest of the 2 nuclear detonations to get pushed up two days to August 9, 1945.

For 74 years the Chicago Cubs had only played day games. Then on 8-8-88, it all changed....almost.