Footage of the most extreme weather conditions in the UK over the past year, from the worst floods in a decade and a freak landslide i...
Dr Helen Czerski examines the hottest natural phenomenon on the planet - lightning. High-speed cameras show the secrets of upward lightning th...
Dr Helen Czerski peers into the heart of the storm to find out how advances in technology are giving new insight into tornadoes - the fastest wi...
Weatherman Alex Beresford explores the world of weird weather. Using a combination of footage from smart phones and cameras, personal te...
One of the team "chases storms" following hurricanes around the USA, collecting weather data in a specifically built car.
In 2005 a tornado in Birmingham struck a neighbourhood and left it in ruins. Clare meets Nazir who experienced it first hand.
A powerful and moving feature-length drama-documentary telling the story of five major storms that battered the UK throughout 2012.
Justin Rowlatt visits communities around Britain battered by this year's extreme weather - unprecedented rainfall, sunshine and susta...
The MET Office provide a visualisation of how much the planet could warm by the end of the century, if we do not curb our emissions.
The erosion of the coastline and destruction of homes by storms.
New sandscaped coastal defences were built to protect the low-lying village of Walcott from flooding, but ...
An exploration of a coastal village that was completely destroyed by a storm.
Zoe hears about a UK boy who cheated death after being hit by a lightning strike.
Kate Humble and Simon Reeve investigate Australia's worst wildfire season in a decade. They explore why wildfires in Australia...
Kate Humble and Simon Reeve investigate Australia's worst wildfire season in a decade. Simon and Kate explore why wind is such...
From Stirling Castle in the Scottish countryside, the team looks at some of the most dramatic storms ever seen in the UK and investigat...
Using a "human wildfire", the team take advice from the professionals and attempt to escape its encroaching reach.
Leo goes to a firefighting training centre and experiences in a safe setting the actual heat of a wildfire.
Wildfires are having an impact across the world, and Alasdair Keane travels to Vancouver to find out how new developments in te...
Leo details how a firefighters uniform protects people from extreme heat.
Justin Rowlatt visits a family who are having to evacuate their house for the second time due to extreme rainfall and flooding.
Meteorologists explain how and why British weather can go from mild to wild, for example Storm Brendan's impact in Slough...
Warm air is able to keep ice particles bouncing around and growing in clouds until gravity brings them to earth due to their weight.
Wildfires are mostly started by human carelessness.
How three young kids lives changed forever when Hurricane Ike destroyed their hometown.
How extreme weather has influenced building design, particularly the building of lighthouses.
A list of some of the most devastating hurricanes and their financial damages.
Leo experiences with a wind tunnel what its like to be in a hurricane and gives out some tips if you are caught in one.
From drought to violent storms and floods, 2012's weather has given us a lot to talk about. Has it been a freak year or should we prepare for m...
In summer 2020, after days of record-breaking heat, a lightning storm rolls into Yorkshire, and lightning strikes...
Experts talk about how lockdown and the lack of cars on the road affected the UK weather in Spring 2020.
A visualisation of the MET Office rainfall projections for Britain.
Iain Stewart investigates what causes monsoons.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, while thousands fled New Orleans, the city's prisoners were trapped. Fresh eye-witness accounts rev...
Nick Miller examines recent developments in extreme weather caused by climate change.
Mike visits a scientific centre that can recreate a lightning bolt.
The impact of rising temperatures on British agriculture.
Rising temperatures are causing wildfires in dry areas of Britain.
The team encounters the most feared event in weather - the hurricane. Florida-based stormchaser Mike takes us on a wild ride into the eye of ...
The team investigates wildfires and discovers how they rage all over the world leaving a trail of devastation and destruction. We travel to Co...
In this Fierce Earth special, Clare and Leo head to Death Valley in California which is officially the hottest place in the entire...
At any one time it is estimated that 2000 thunderstorms are happening across the world. The team investigate what makes the thundercloud s...
Tornadoes are rare, but there's nothing more frantic or explosive in nature. The team investigates where that awesome power comes from and wha...
A very special edition of Fierce Earth, where team adventurer Leo Houlding looks back over his top ten fiercest moments ev...
In this Fierce Earth special, US storm-chaser Mike Theiss travels into the heart of the Boston Blizzard of February 2013. He witnesses first-h...
The team travel to avalanche country and the French ski town of Tignes, in the Alps. Clare and Dougal go skiing in the shadow of the biggest ...
A dramatic minute-by-minute account of the superstorm that brought New York State to its knees, including a forensic analyis of the devastatio...
The team are in Somerset, revisiting areas hit by 2014's floods.
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