One of the most intense Atlantic hurricanes on record made landfall in Jamaica with 185mph winds. Category 5 Hurrica...
This episode examines the relationship between nature and the people of the monsoon.
On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the combination of monsoon and volcanoes has created a paradise.
During the part of the year that the monsoon does not bring rain, the winds reverse, bringing dry air instead.
From India to Thailand and Cambodia, the Asian monsoon makes its grand entrance, the bringer of life and the destroyer.
From India to Australia, all life awaits the transforming power of the monsoon rains.
Wildfires are having an impact across the world, and Alasdair Keane travels to Vancouver to find out how new developments in te...
It was England's wettest year since records began; this documentary explores why 2012's relentless floods happened and tells the personal stories of...
The people who bore the brunt of the relentless stream of powerful storms that battered Britain across Christmas 2013 relive their experience...
From Stirling Castle in the Scottish countryside, the team looks at some of the most dramatic storms ever seen in the UK and investigat...
The chilling account of the 2018 megafire that swept through northern California, containing moving interviews with the firemen, police and survivo...
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, while thousands fled New Orleans, the city's prisoners were trapped. Fresh eye-witness accounts rev...
A weekend in November 2024 saw homes destroyed and lives changed forever during Storm Bert. Watch the storm and its impact unfold from...
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...
Dr Helen Czerski examines the hottest natural phenomenon on the planet - lightning. High-speed cameras show the secrets of upward lightning th...
Floods have been sweeping through central Europe - leaving destruction behind them - see Storm Boris from above.
The documentary series follows a November 1991 storm off the east coast of the United States, near Boston, when three weather fronts collided, producing 100 mph wi...
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...
A powerful and moving feature-length drama-documentary telling the story of five major storms that battered the UK throughout 2012.
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...
Weatherman Alex Beresford explores the world of weird weather. Using a combination of footage from smart phones and cameras, personal testimon...
Weatherman Alex Beresford explores the world of weird weather. Using a combination of footage from smart phones and cameras, personal te...
From the tidal surges that flooded North Sea coasts and the hurricane force winds that battered our western shores. Further bac...
A very special edition of Fierce Earth, where team adventurer Leo Houlding looks back over his top ten fiercest moments ev...
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 ...
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...
Tornadoes are rare, but there's nothing more frantic or explosive in nature. The team investigates where that awesome power comes from and wha...
At any one time it is estimated that 2000 thunderstorms are happening across the world. The team investigate what makes the thundercloud s...
In this Fierce Earth special, Clare and Leo head to Death Valley in California which is officially the hottest place in the entire...
The team investigates wildfires and discovers how they rage all over the world leaving a trail of devastation and destruction. We travel to Co...
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 ...
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.
The Somerset Levels faced a natural disaster in the winter of 2013. The village of Moorland was entirely engulfed by the floods. This follows thos...
Justin Rowlatt visits communities around Britain battered by this year's extreme weather - unprecedented rainfall, sunshine and susta...
Kate Humble and Simon Reeve investigate Australia's worst wildfire season in a decade. Simon and Kate explore why wind is such...
Kate Humble and Simon Reeve investigate Australia's worst wildfire season in a decade. They explore why wildfires in Australia...
A nine-year-old boy describes his incredible escape from a tornado.
Leo is in Texas meeting the scientists who build and test out tornado shelters.
In 2005 a tornado in Birmingham struck a neighbourhood and left it in ruins. Clare meets Nazir who experienced it first hand.
Clare explains why the tornados tunnel shape is the key to such incredible wind speed.
Mike explains what he does when he tracks a tornado, and the kind of data he records.
Mike describes his experiences in Tornado Alley in middle America where up to 300 tornados can occur every year.
Mike visits a scientific centre that can recreate a lightning bolt.
Warm air is able to keep ice particles bouncing around and growing in clouds until gravity brings them to earth due to their weight.
Warm moist air rising from the ground is needed for thunderstorms to form.
Clare and Leo get some advice about how to ride out a dangerous thunderstorm and avoid getting hit by lightning.
Because of the speed of light compared to sound, you can determine that every 5 seconds that passes before hearing thunder, the lightning is 1 ...
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