Captured: Extreme Weather
In this episode we show some of the most extreme winter weather ever caught on camera, including a first-hand look at being buried by an avalanche.
In this episode we show some of the most extreme winter weather ever caught on camera, including a first-hand look at being buried by an avalanche.
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Mark and Jaclyn make their annual trek to Tornado Alley and this time they are looking for more than severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. They also want answers as to whether Climate Change is causing changes to Tornado Alley.
Grace and poise is personified in the largest animals on the planet.
Get up close and personal with the creatures that call your backyard home.
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 Canadas West Coast, great forces are at work under the ground, building and eroding the underground into fantastic shapes. In this episode well witness Georges 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.
Some of the fiercest weather on the planet can be experienced at the southern tip of Argentina and Chile the area the South Americans call the Fin del Mundo the end of the world. Host George Kourounis travels to Ushuaia, Argentina, sails south on the expedition sailboat Northanger to round infamous Cape Horn, then climbs the spectacular but rapidly melting glaciers along the Beagle Channel.
Adventurer George Kourounis joins Mark and Jaclyn on a journey to Nepal. They witness the devastation caused by the deadly 2015 earthquake, see first-hand the reconstruction efforts, and are awed by the warmth and hospitality of the Nepalese people.
Mark and Jaclyn make their annual trek to Tornado Alley and this time they are looking for more than severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. They also want answers as to whether Climate Change is causing changes to Tornado Alley.
Stormhunters Mark and Jaclyn visit Canada's Arctic to see how the inhabitants live. Jaclyn also hopes to achieve one of her lifelong goals to come face to face with a polar bear. Will she be able to cross this off her bucket list?
When it comes to interacting with our world, nature has nothing to hide.
Witness the rough and tumble animal world in the raw.
Tornadoes they are the embodiment of severe weather. In this episode we show some of the most terrifying weather caught on camera from surviving a direct hit to a tornado in a typhoon.
El Niño is a temperature anomaly in the Pacific Ocean that affects weather patterns around the globe. In this episode we show some of the costly and deadly weather that can result when a Super El Niño occurs.
Follow hunter Jamey Mosch into the Florida everglades as his hunting trips turns into a four day nightmare.
A bass fishing trip goes horribly wrong when a bolt of lightning strikes their boat, leaving Seventeen-year-old Christian Neal burned and unconscious and his father Gabe blown into the water and paralyzed. It will take a miracle to save them.
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