August 1st is a holiday in a number of provinces across Canada and in Ontario it’s the Civic Long Weekend...don't ask me what that even means because I still don't have a clue...but back in 2006, it was so oppressively hot that the grid almost crashed, this day in weather history.

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The tornado started as a small funnel south of Edmonton. It peaked at F4 on the Fujita scale and remained on the ground for an hour, cutting a swath of destruction 30.8 kilometres (19.1 mi) in length and up to 1.3 kilometres (0.81 mi) wide in some places, this day in weather history.

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How many once in a millennium events should happen in that time frame; I’d say one. But what if places all over were seeing events that to them were of this rarity? That would mean something bigger was a foot. But what? Lets find out what happened on this day in weather history.

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I do love space stories. Remember that this podcast is already more than a year old and this is actually episode #424, so there have already been some real doozy stories involving space. Today is special though because it is another start of something great; this time we look back at the start of NASA….this day in weather history.

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On July 28, 1976 at the very early hour of 3:42 a.m.,while everyone was asleep, an 8.2 magnitude flattened the industrial city of Tangshan, threatening the lives of all one million people who lived there; this day in weather history.

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July 27, 1943 marks the day Col. Joseph Duckworth and Lt. Ralph O'Hair of the U.S. Air Force piloted the first ever plane into the eye of a hurricane. They flew the AT-6 Texan over the Gulf of Mexico….on a dare by British pilots at the base who bet they couldn't do it. What started as an act of machismo or bravado, became a turning point in how we investigate and analyze hurricanes!!!...and it took flight This Day in Weather History.

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In July 2018, a wildfire near Redding, California, erupted. On the 26th, This Day in Weather History, it exploded into what was determined to have been a fire tornado with winds on par with those of an EF3 tornado….this day in weather history!

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Think of a state in the US where you would last suspect a twister, Massatusettes doesn't count because we did an episode on them the day before yesterday. Today we hit the Last Frontier; Alaska, This Day in Weather History.

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Maccu Picchu is an ancient Inca settlement in Peru that is now one of the world’s top tourist destinations....and it’s location made full personal use of weather benefits and exacted it’s perils upon anyone looking to invade….there is a lot to unwrap here and we’re exploring this right now on This Day in Weather History.

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According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, of the roughly 1,253 tornadoes that the United States averages per year, of these Massachusetts sees only one. So let's find out now what happened in 2019, on this day in weather history.

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