S01E04: Savaii | Ray Mears’ World of Survival

S01E04: Savaii | Ray Mears’ World of Survival

Extreme weather events | BBC Two | 1997 | 29'12''

Ray Mears travels to Savaii, Western Samoa, an island prone to cyclones and treacherous seas.

Greece’s Megafires | Our World

Greece’s Megafires | Our World

Climate change impacts | BBC News | 2021 | 23'16''

Bethany Bell, who reported on the wildfires in Greece in August, returns to see how people are dealing with the consequences of the cata...

Australia’s Wildlife: After the Fires | Our World

Australia’s Wildlife: After the Fires | Our World

Climate change impacts | BBC News | 2021 | 22'59''

In 2019-20, Australia suffered its most intense bushfire season on record. Eighteen months on, Nick Lazaredes travels...

Typhoon Haiyan aftermath | BBC News at One

Typhoon Haiyan aftermath | BBC News at One

Extreme weather events | BBC One | 2013 | 7'21''

Aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.

Typhoon Haiyan: a year on | BBC News at One

Typhoon Haiyan: a year on | BBC News at One

Extreme weather events | BBC One | 2014 | 3'07''

Twelve months ago Typhoon Haiyan tore across the Philippines with its brutal winds and storm surges leaving more than 7,000 peopl...

Typhoon Kalmaegi Tears Through Vietnam | BBC News at Six

Typhoon Kalmaegi Tears Through Vietnam | BBC News at Six

Extreme weather events | BBC News | 2025 | 2'31''

Typhoon Kalmaegi has destroyed homes and uprooted trees in Vietnam and has now weakened as it heads into Cambodia an...

DEC Philippines Typhoon Appeal

DEC Philippines Typhoon Appeal

Extreme weather events | BBC One | 2013 | 2'33''

Kirsty Young presents the DEC Philippines Typhoon Appeal. Typhoon Haiyan has devastated parts of the Philippines leaving up to 10,000 people d...

Surviving The Typhoon | Newsround Specials

Surviving The Typhoon | Newsround Specials

Extreme weather events | CBBC | 2013 | 10'27''

Newsround's Leah Gooding travels to the Philippines to see how children are coping following Typhoon Haiyan. Speaking to kids who ...

Typhoon Haiyan | Review

Typhoon Haiyan | Review

Extreme weather events | BBC News | 2013 | 2'07''

Features the chaos and suffering caused by Typhoon Haiyan.

Super-Typhoon Batters the Philippines | Breakfast

Super-Typhoon Batters the Philippines | Breakfast

Extreme weather events | BBC One | 2025 | 2'46''

A new super-typhoon - with winds of more than 240 kilometres per hour - bears down on the Philippines, forcing locals to se...

Extreme Climate Explorers | 100 Women

Extreme Climate Explorers | 100 Women

Extreme weather events | BBC News | 2025 | 25'47''

Three female scientist battle nature's extremes to collect data that could help save the planet and us. With expeditions from Uganda to...

Hurricane Melissa: The Storm That Hit Jamaica | BBC News

Hurricane Melissa: The Storm That Hit Jamaica | BBC News

Extreme weather events | BBC News | 2025 | 24'47''

One of the most intense Atlantic hurricanes on record made landfall in Jamaica with 185mph winds. Category 5 Hurrica...

05: People of the Monsoon | Wonders of the Monsoon

05: People of the Monsoon | Wonders of the Monsoon

Extreme weather events | BBC Two | 2014 | 59'02''

This episode examines the relationship between nature and the people of the monsoon.

04: Strange Castaways | Wonders of the Monsoon

04: Strange Castaways | Wonders of the Monsoon

Extreme weather events | BBC Two | 2014 | 58'59''

On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the combination of monsoon and volcanoes has created a paradise.

03: The Drought | Wonders of the Monsoon

03: The Drought | Wonders of the Monsoon

Extreme weather events | BBC Two | 2014 | 59'01''

During the part of the year that the monsoon does not bring rain, the winds reverse, bringing dry air instead.

02: Deluge | Wonders of the Monsoon

02: Deluge | Wonders of the Monsoon

Extreme weather events | BBC Two | 2014 | 59'05''

From India to Thailand and Cambodia, the Asian monsoon makes its grand entrance, the bringer of life and the destroyer.

01: Waiting for the Rains | Wonders of the Monsoon

01: Waiting for the Rains | Wonders of the Monsoon

Extreme weather events | BBC Two | 2014 | 59'14''

From India to Australia, all life awaits the transforming power of the monsoon rains.

Fighting Wildfires: Can Tech Help? | Tech Now

Fighting Wildfires: Can Tech Help? | Tech Now

Extreme weather events | BBC News | 2025 | 6'15''

Wildfires are having an impact across the world, and Alasdair Keane travels to Vancouver to find out how new developments in te...

The Year Britain Flooded

The Year Britain Flooded

Extreme weather events | Channel 4 | 2013 | 46'20''

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 Storms That Stole Christmas

The Storms That Stole Christmas

Extreme weather events | Channel 4 | 2014 | 45'32''

The people who bore the brunt of the relentless stream of powerful storms that battered Britain across Christmas 2013 relive their experience...

Episode 4 | The Great British Weather

Episode 4 | The Great British Weather

Extreme weather events | BBC One | 2011 | 59'10''

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 Day California Burned

The Day California Burned

Extreme weather events | BBC Two | 2019 | 59'17''

The chilling account of the 2018 megafire that swept through northern California, containing moving interviews with the firemen, police and survivo...

Prisoners of Katrina | This World

Prisoners of Katrina | This World

Extreme weather events | BBC Two | 2006 | 59'21''

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, while thousands fled New Orleans, the city's prisoners were trapped. Fresh eye-witness accounts reve...

Storm Bert Batters the UK | From Above

Storm Bert Batters the UK | From Above

Extreme weather events | BBC News | 2024 | 8'15''

A weekend in November 2024 saw homes destroyed and lives changed forever during Storm Bert. Watch the storm and its impact unfold from...

05: Tornado | Dangerous Earth

05: Tornado | Dangerous Earth

Extreme weather events | BBC Four | 2016 | 29'14''

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 w...

03: Lightning | Dangerous Earth

03: Lightning | Dangerous Earth

Extreme weather events | BBC Four | 2016 | 29'13''

Dr Helen Czerski examines the hottest natural phenomenon on the planet - lightning. High-speed cameras show the secrets of upward lightning t...

Storm Boris Floods in Europe | From Above

Storm Boris Floods in Europe | From Above

Extreme weather events | BBC News | 2024 | 9'22''

Floods have been sweeping through central Europe - leaving destruction behind them - see Storm Boris from above.

The Storm

The Storm

Extreme weather events | Channel 4 | 1998 | 50'18''

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...

Is Our Weather Getting Worse?

Is Our Weather Getting Worse?

Extreme weather events | Channel 4 | 2012 | 47'14''

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...

Britain’s Killer Storms

Britain’s Killer Storms

Extreme weather events | Channel 4 | 2013 | 1'15'21''

A powerful and moving feature-length drama-documentary telling the story of five major storms that battered the UK throughout 2012.

2020 | Britain’s Wildest Weather

2020 | Britain’s Wildest Weather

Extreme weather events | Channel 4 | 2020 | 46'49''

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...

World’s Weirdest Weather

World’s Weirdest Weather

Extreme weather events | Channel 4 | 2014 | 46'25''

Weatherman Alex Beresford explores the world of weird weather. Using a combination of footage from smart phones and cameras, personal testimon...

Air | World’s Weirdest Weather

Air | World’s Weirdest Weather

Extreme weather events | Channel 4 | 2013 | 47'00''

Weatherman Alex Beresford explores the world of weird weather. Using a combination of footage from smart phones and cameras, personal te...

Storms | Britain’s Most Extreme Weather

Storms | Britain’s Most Extreme Weather

Extreme weather events | Channel 4 | 2014 | 46'58''

From the tidal surges that flooded North Sea coasts and the hurricane force winds that battered our western shores. Further bac...

Sandy: Anatomy of a Superstorm

Sandy: Anatomy of a Superstorm

Extreme weather events | BBC Two | 2012 | 58'28''

A dramatic minute-by-minute account of the superstorm that brought New York State to its knees, including a forensic analyis of the devastatio...

Somerset | Countryfile

Somerset | Countryfile

Extreme weather events | BBC One | 2015 | 55'23''

The team are in Somerset, revisiting areas hit by 2014's floods.

Somerset: After the Floods

Somerset: After the Floods

Extreme weather events | BBC Two | 2015 | 59'05''

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...

Britain’s Wild Weather | Panorama

Britain’s Wild Weather | Panorama

Extreme weather events | BBC One | 2020 | 58'03''

Justin Rowlatt visits communities around Britain battered by this year's extreme weather - unprecedented rainfall, sunshine and susta...

Episode 2 | Wildfires 2014: Inside the Inferno

Episode 2 | Wildfires 2014: Inside the Inferno

Extreme weather events | BBC Two | 2014 | 58'55''

Kate Humble and Simon Reeve investigate Australia's worst wildfire season in a decade. Simon and Kate explore why wind is such...

Episode 1 | Wildfires 2014: Inside the Inferno

Episode 1 | Wildfires 2014: Inside the Inferno

Extreme weather events | BBC Two | 2014 | 58'56''

Kate Humble and Simon Reeve investigate Australia's worst wildfire season in a decade. They explore why wildfires in Australia...

Coastal Erosion and Storm Surges | Britain’s Wildest Weather

Coastal Erosion and Storm Surges | Britain’s Wildest Weather

Extreme weather events | Channel 4 | 2020 | 5'53''

New sandscaped coastal defences were built to protect the low-lying village of Walcott from flooding, but ...

Lightning Strikes a House | Britain’s Wildest Weather

Lightning Strikes a House | Britain’s Wildest Weather

Extreme weather events | Channel 4 | 2020 | 4'53''

In summer 2020, after days of record-breaking heat, a lightning storm rolls into Yorkshire, and lightning strikes...

Wildfires in the UK | Britain’s Wildest Weather

Wildfires in the UK | Britain’s Wildest Weather

Extreme weather events | Channel 4 | 2020 | 3'36''

Experts and eye-witnesses talk about wildfires in Surrey during heatwaves in 2020.

Lockdown Weather | Britain’s Wildest Weather

Lockdown Weather | Britain’s Wildest Weather

Extreme weather events | Channel 4 | 2020 | 1'23''

Experts talk about how lockdown and the lack of cars on the road affected the UK weather in Spring 2020.

Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis | Britain’s Wildest Weather

Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis | Britain’s Wildest Weather

Extreme weather events | Channel 4 | 2020 | 4'14''

Eye-witnesses and people affected talk about storms Ciara and Dennis, which caused flooding across the UK in F...

Flooding in the UK in 2020 | Britain’s Wildest Weather

Flooding in the UK in 2020 | Britain’s Wildest Weather

Extreme weather events | Channel 4 | 2020 | 1'22''

Footage from across the UK in February 2020, the wettest month on record.

From Mild to Wild | Britain’s Wildest Weather

From Mild to Wild | Britain’s Wildest Weather

Extreme weather events | Channel 4 | 2020 | 5'22''

Meteorologists explain how and why British weather can go from mild to wild, for example Storm Brendan's impact in Slough...

Experiencing extreme weather events | Weather World

Experiencing extreme weather events | Weather World

Extreme weather events | BBC News | 2021 | 3'03''

Nick Miller examines recent developments in extreme weather caused by climate change.