On May 24, 1973, an F4 tornado struck Union City Oklahoma but that was not the big story. Not on THIS day in weather history.

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The number of fires and areas burnt was not a record high for this region, but what differentiated it was what and who it affected; these were moving in on urban centres this day in weather history.

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Tornadoes are fierce and unpredictable. Chasers know this all too well. Especially those who came back with research and images from the EF5 that crushed Joplin Missouri in 2001 on this day in weather history.

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Yesterday was Moore Oklahoma, tomorrow is Joplin Missouri; BOTH EF5 monsters and both within 8 years of each other. Today we go back to the year 1953 for the F4 that hit Sarnia Ontario, this day in weather history.

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Oklahoma typically experiences around 60 tornadoes a year. Afterall, It is part of Tornado Alley, a nickname for this unique geographical area in the southern plains of the central United States, where tornadoes are common. I’ve done plenty of stories on this podcast from here so we at least have the backstory going in to this day in weather history.

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It was on a Tuesday, it was March 17th in the year 2020 when six-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady announced that his 20 years in New England was over. At that time it was reported that the skies darkened and no sun has been seen ever since. THIS, however is NOT that story. This was an even darker day, this day in New England Weather History.

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On the morning of May 18, Mount St. Helens was shaken by an earthquake of about 5.0 magnitude, and the entire north side of the summit began to slide down the mountain. This Day in Weather History.

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It was not a bad day weather wise on take off but things changed fast and for the worse. We are back in the year 2001 and this Faraz Qeshm Airlines Yak-40 was a short-haul trijet en route to Gorgan Airport from Tehran-Mehrabad Airport in Iran. That was the plan anyway. This day in Weather History.

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If we were to lose the Ozone layer of atmosphere we would be in big big trouble. Top of the list of concerns would be radiation from the sun would be able to reach earth directly. Sounds pretty horrifying and impossible right? We were on the verge of it and it wasn’t all that long ago. The alarm was sounded in the May 16th issue of NATURE Magazine, three scientists from the British Antarctic Survey announced that they had confirmed detection of what was indeed abnormally low levels of ozone over the South Pole….we were now in BIG trouble...this day in weather history.

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Hurricane Able was a rare hurricane that formed outside the typical North Atlantic hurricane season. We still had to get to June 1st and we were nowhere near that date on this day in weather history.

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