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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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