Hurricanes are devastating and destructive enough when they make landfall. When they make TWO landfalls, they make history.

Southern Ontario through Southern Quebec; it is estimated that close to 60% of the country’s population is concentrated here between Windsor and Montreal. It was through this stretch that this population density was under a collective threat of tornadoes all night!!

On July 16, 1996, an hour and a half storm in Winnipeg, brought hailstones up to 70 mm in diameter.

Peterborough, Ontario was hit by two bands of wet weather, one Wednesday evening and the other early Thursday. They poured a combined 193 mm of rain on the city. This turned residential streets into running rivers, flooded out basements and underpasses were literally submerged in water so deep it was totally impassable. It happened on July 15th, 2004...This Day in Weather History!!

The date was July 14, 2000 and a terrible funnel cloud carved a kilometre-wide path of destruction, tossing fragile mobile homes into the lake and smashing others beyond recognition.

Rain delayed the construction of the centrepiece stadium so no opening ceremonies and things begin to unravel for the FIRST EVER World Cup of Soccer tournament that was 25 years in the planning and dreaming. Then on Day 1...it SNOWS!

The day the sky opened up and things went straight to hail in Calgary, on July 12th, This Day in Weather History!

On July 11th, a storm unleashed the biggest deluge of rain and hail ever seen in the Alberta capital - up until that point.

The year was 1986, the event was the LPGA US Women's Open in Dayton, Ohio. But literally EVERYTHING that could go wrong around them DID go wrong; including the weather.

This is the story of the deadly F2 tornado that ripped through a camp ground near Ear Falls, Northwest Ontario. Those who perished came from Oklahoma; this was not supposed to happen here!