In 2017, Hurricane Harvey became one of the largest storms to hit the United States in 12 years. Josh Morgerman traveled to Texas to be an eye-witness to what became the costliest tropical cyclone on record.
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Journey through nature's extremes - from the tranquil beauty of Snowcover and Rainbows to the raw power of Tidal Waves and Dust Devils.
You better board up the windows and secure all the doors, because Mother Nature is back and ready to show you just how powerful she can be, with some of the most electrifying, fiercest, and extreme weather videos you have ever seen!
Mother Nature is back and ready to blow you away, with some of the fiercest, most electrifying, and most extreme weather we have ever seen! So buckle in and let's get ready to ride!
George returns to the “Fin Del Mundo” at the southern tip of Argentina, this time to sail on a Russian icebreaker to Antarctica. After braving the stormy Drake passage, he explores volcanic Deception Island, camps out in the Antarctic snow, and paddles a kayak through icebergs calved off the melting glaciers.
No-one creates eco-disasters on quite the scale of the former Soviet Union. In Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea, once one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world, has seen its waters diverted, so that it has shrunk to 1/6 its previous size. In Crimea, a mountain has been carved into a james bondian submarine base. In northern Ukraine, the Chernobyl nuclear site has been reduced to a radioactive wasteland.
Early September of 2008 saw radical imagery on the hurricane maps of the Atlantic – four named tropical storms, swirling in a train across the ocean. “Angry Planet” was there as three of them made landfall as hurricanes in the US. We filmed gustaf in Louisiana, Hanna in North Carolina, then flew with the USAF Hurricane Hunters into Ike over cuba, and met it again as it made a wild destructive landfall in Galveston, Texas.
The most notorious volcanic explosion in history came from the small island of Krakatoa, off the coast of Java, The tiny island was pulverized and the giant explosion was felt half way around the world. Java is at the heart of the Ring of Fire, and so has seen many volcanoes, mud slides and earthquakes through its long history.
It is time for “Angry Planet” to do a serious desert episode. What better place to do it than this fabled city in the middle of the mighty Sahara Desert.This almost mythical place really does exist. And it really is still possible to travel there by camel caravan, riding the infamous “Ships of the Desert”. Extreme heat, dehydration, possible sand storms, frigid night temperatures and desert predators are our potential companions for the trip.
Italy is one of the very few nations in the world that regularly gets three major extreme natural phenomena – volcanos, flooding, and avalanches. Eastern flanks of the volcano to slip by up to two metres, and many houses on the flanks of the volcano experienced structural damage. The eruption also completely destroyed the Rifugio Sapienza, on the southern flank of the volcano. The Rifugio was the site of a cable car station which had previously been destroyed in the 1983 eruption both have now been rebuilt. The most recent eruption was in November 2006.
Stormchasing developed in Australia in the same period – the 1990s – as it developed in the American Midwest. In the first week of December – the height of storm season in Australia, we plan to travel with Jimmy Deguara, the most experienced of Australian stormchasers.
In the porous limestone of Canada's West Coast, great forces are at work under the ground, building and eroding the underground into fantastic shapes. In this episode we'll witness George's explorations of these massive underground cave systems.
George experiences the most extreme climates in North America. First he visits the hottest place on the continent – Death Valley, then the coldest – Snag, Yukon.
George Kourounis returns to “Tornado Alley” with three of his fellow stormchasers to see what the 2007 Storm Season will bring. He gets a birthday gift of a large Kansas tornado, then travels to Missouri to witness a string of violent thunderstorms. Heading west to Crazy Horse Mountain, the team is in place for a huge storm sweeping through the Badlands of South Dakota.
Are you ready to have dust devils, tornadoes, floods, and thunderstorms flashing before your eyes? You'd better be, because you're watching Extreme Weather Countdown, where we waste no time filling your screen with the most intense weather events caught on camera.
Today's countdown will give you a front row seat to some once in a lifetime weather phenomena from around the globe, so let's batten down the hatches and get right into it!
Here at Extreme Weather Countdown, no natural phenomenon is too crazy, and we've returned with an episode chock-full of footage from the eye of the storm. Settle in, because there are rough seas ahead.
In 2013, Josh Morgerman chased 3 typhoons in 6 days, setting a personal record amidst the Western Pacific's destructive forces.
In 2019, Josh Morgerman chased Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas in what wound up becoming one of the most intense and dangerous storms he has ever encountered.
In 2015, Josh Morgerman traveled to Mexico to chase what would become one of the strongest tropical hurricanes ever recorded. His harrowing experience with Patricia would forever shape his identity as a Hurricane Chaser.
Josh relives his most harrowing moments hunting the world's most dangerous storms.
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