Today's forecast calls for gale force winds, fearsome tornadoes, and major flooding, all in a matter of minutes! Hold on tight, because it's time for another episode of Extreme Weather Countdown.
What's the only place where it rains, snows, and storms every single day? You guessed it, right here on Extreme Weather Countdown, and we're back with a brand new lineup of astonishing weather footage.
Who will win in a match of Showboat Racer on a Slick Road and Grandma Doing Donuts?
Who will win in a match of Wave Ravaged Deck and Tornado Coming Ashore?
Who will win in a match of Parasailing without a Tether and Snowboarder Facing an Avalanche?
Who will win in a match of Flooded out Car Dealership and an ATV Racing up a Mountain Side?
Who will win in a match of Ice Cave Collapses and Bathing Suit Snow Dives?
Who will win in a match of Paraglider vs. Dust Devil or Off Roaders Taking on a Mud Pit?
Who will win in a match of Kayaker over a Waterfall and Car Avoiding Falling Tree?
Who will win in a match of Sliding Jeep down a hill and Tornado Joins a Soccer Game?
Who will win in a match of Flash Flood Steals Car and a Tornado Tearing Through a Cafe?
We break the bounds of earth, and look at the environment of space. We examine the difficulties and challenges of exploring this most challenging environment. George experiences some of the extreme training needed for space travel aboard a Czech-built Albatross fighter jet, the Zero-G plane, and a centrifuge producing 6 Gs of force, and witnesses the launch of a flight to the International Space Station.
The Angry Planet team hopes to film the natural wonders and extreme phenomena of this fascinating Central Asian country, including a spectacularly burning crater of natural gas, underground lakes, sandstorms and remnants of the dinosaurs.
In 2000, a remarkable find was made in Chihuahua, Mexico, of a spectacular cave filled with giant crystals, some over 20 meters long. But it is a intensely difficult spot to explore with temperatures over 50 degrees C and humidity well over 100%. George leads an Explorers Club Flag Expedition into the cave, wearing special refrigerated suits and respirators to battle the extreme environment.
George and three side-kicks head straight into the Bearcage, looking to get beat up by the biggest, baddest hailstones that Texas and Oklahoma can throw at them. They find it and their stormchasing vehicles dont look too pretty after coming through these massive storms.
George and three side-kicks head straight into the Bearcage, looking to get beat up by the biggest, baddest hailstones that Texas and Oklahoma can throw at them. They find it and their stormchasing vehicles dont look too pretty after coming through these massive storms.
Ground Zero for host/adventurer George Kourounis stormchasing is Oklahoma City, capital of North Americas Tornado Alley. George tracks a building storm that threatens that tough mid-western city, chases a hail storm, fights to get in the middle of a vicious dust-devil and the funky roadside Americana of the American Midwest.
The Angry Planet team will be tracking storms through the 2009 Hurricane season, and plan to film george as he heads into a big one.
Its dark, its cold, there is no air to breath and everything is under extreme pressure. George begins his exploration of the deep with a well-preserved shipwreck in the st.lawrence River, then heads west to dive with undersea explorers Chris Harvey-Clark and Phil Nuyyton, and investigate the newly discovered Black Smoker deepsea vents. The show climaxes in Curacao, where we dive to 1000 feet aboard Nuyytons newest submersible.
Filming the volcanoes, mudpools and geysers in the geothermic wonderland of New Zealands north island, we learn that a new island is being created by an undersea volcano 1000 miles north in Tonga. Determined to be among the first to see this newest land on earth, we head for the remote island by plane and boat, after various nautical mishaps, George ends up, bedraggled and clad in nothing but underwear and a lifejacket, honored to be one of the very first to explore this brand new island.