On July 2, 1843, a powerful storm brought more than just gusty winds and heavy rainfall to Charleston, South Carolina…..and an alligator, this day in weather history.

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On July 1st, 1863, one of the largest military conflicts in North American history started when Union and Confederate forces collided at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The epic battle lasted three days and resulted in a retreat to Virginia by Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. But in all the history books and movies made about this infamous period, there is rarely much romanticized about how much the weather played in it’s events; today we do that, This Day in Weather History.

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When we think of Guadalajara Mexico we think ice in margaritas in a rustic cantina with tacos and a mariachi band playing nearby. What we don’t normally think about is the whole city buried in ice. Ice comes in many shapes and forms but it rarely comes in south western mexico...especially the way it did this day in weather history.

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And I thought that I was a weather nerd….For the 3rd sitting President of the United States, The weather held a curious fascination for one Tomas Jefferson as he made regular weather observations in a journal. He bought his first thermometer while working on the Declaration of Independence...not a snappy new pen...no, a thermometer and his first barometer shortly after that.

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California knows earthquakes. The sunshine coast has nearly been destroyed or erased altogether a few times by quakes over the centuries. But with all that history, did you know that two of the strongest earthquakes to ever hit California, did so on the same day; June 28, 1992, this day in weather history.

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Michael Phelps won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games. At those games, he would break fellow American swimming legend Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games. But Mother Nature would get the better of him and the whole US Swim Team, this day in weather history.

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The John B. King drillship, a 43-metre long wooden boat, was the largest drill boat in Canada at the time. She had finished drilling the holes and was being led by the charged dynamite detonation wires, pulling away from the site when struck by lightning, detonating the underwater charges, this day in weather history.

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We’ve heard them all before, Lightning never strikes the same place twice, your odds of getting by lightning are impossible, get struck by lightning and you get super powers like Shazaam! What happens of you get struck SEVEN times in one life? We find out today on This Day in Weather History.

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Today is the time that the rain at a Glastonbury Festival that even had the most ardent of revellers thinking….ok maybe this is too much now...on This Day in Weather History!!

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I was on The Weather Network tracking every movement of this storm system and broadcasting the events LIVE...all while on my cell making sure my cousin and his family were alright. On June 23, 2010, Midland was struck by an F2 tornado, causing $15 million in damage….on this Day in Weather History.

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