Wild Weather
A documentary exploring the extremes of the world's climate.The four programmes focus on wind, wet, cold and heat, and explore how these produce hurricanes, monsoons, ice storms and tornadoes, as well as regulate the global environment.
- 2002-2002
- 1 season
- Documentary
A documentary exploring the extremes of the world's climate.The four programmes focus on wind, wet, cold and heat, and explore how these produce hurricanes, monsoons, ice storms and tornadoes, as well as regulate the global environment.
Season 1 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 2002
Episode 1
Wind
52 mins
Donal explores the journey the winds take from their birth at the equator where he finds himself adrift in the doldrums to the North pole where he witnesses arguably the most beautiful vision on earth, a space rainbow, better known as Aurora Borealis. Along the way he revisits the devastating events that were unleashed by Hurricane Andrew in the USA.
Episode 2
Wet
Donal takes a ride with the rains from the wettest place in Europe, the little known Norwegian town of Bergen where it rains 265 days of the year, and onto the wettest place in the world - India, where 25 billion tons of water falls each day during the monsoon period.
Episode 3
Cold
Donal is tested to see the effect extreme cold has on the body and meets two men who survived wild weather conditions in New York, when winds reached up to 145 mph in a freak storm.
Episode 4
Heat
Donal traces the arrival of summer from the extremes of heat in the desert to the idea of a perfect summer in the temperate climates of the north.