Richard Hammond’s Wild Weather

Episode: Episode Three - Temperature: The Driving Force
Broadcast Info: 2014 (58 mins)
Description: Richard Hammond, explores weather in a way it’s never been done before. Setting up enormous experiments and using a whole barrage of innovative technology, he will reveal the hidden world of weather in stunning detail.
Tornados, sandstorms and hail storms use simple ingredients like air, earth and water and transform them into something spectacular, powerful and incredibly dangerous. But even our everyday weather is a thing of extraordinary beauty - and complexity - and not necessarily in the way you might think. This series will change the way you see weather.
Richard will get right to the heart of these extraordinary phenomena by experiencing them first hand - from stepping inside a man made tornado in the USA and building an enormous cloud; to crushing a car with rain and detonating an avalanche. By teaming up with experts from around the world Richard uncovers some of the most fascinating new discoveries from the very cutting edge of science including just how fast a twister spins.
In Episode 3 Richard investigates how heat - or lack of it - drives all our weather: he starts a dust storm in Australia, lights a giant hotplate in a quarry in the UK and creates an ice storm in Canada.

Richard Hammond’s Wild Weather will completely change what you see when you look out of your window in the morning.
Genre: Science; Research; Physics; Climate; Meteorology

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