Episode list

Wild Weather

Wind

Tue, Sep 24, 2002
Donal explores the journey the winds take from their birth at the equator where he finds himself adrift in the doldrums to the North pole where he witnesses arguably the most beautiful vision on earth, a space rainbow, better known as Aurora Borealis. Along the way he revisits the devastating events that were unleashed by Hurricane Andrew in the USA.
7.9 /10
Wet

Tue, Oct 01, 2002
Donal takes a ride with the rains from the wettest place in Europe, the little known Norwegian town of Bergen where it rains 265 days of the year, and onto the wettest place in the world - India, where 25 billion tons of water falls each day during the monsoon period.
8.4 /10
Cold

Tue, Oct 08, 2002
Donal is tested to see the effect extreme cold has on the body and meets two men who survived wild weather conditions in New York, when winds reached up to 145 mph in a freak storm.
8.4 /10
Heat

Mon, Oct 14, 2002
Donal traces the arrival of summer from the extremes of heat in the desert to the idea of a perfect summer in the temperate climates of the north.
8.3 /10

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