On August 4, 2014, two months' worth of rain fell in the city of Burlington as thunderstorms swept through much of southern Ontario flooding basements and causing millions of dollars in damage; this day in weather history.

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On August 3, 2018, Alonsa was struck by an EF-4 tornado that tossed vehicles and trailers, and actually ripped a home clear from its foundation. That’s just where our story starts on this day in weather history.

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On August 2, 1985, Flight 191 a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was viciously and abruptly knocked out of the sky by what is termed a microburst while on approach to land at Dallas Forth Worth…..again, however the question is raised: Might this have been avoided?.....this day in weather history.

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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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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.