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Show Name....... Wild Weather with Richard Hammond
Rating.......... N/A
Premiered....... 2014-11-30
Type............ Documentary
Genre........... Nature
Plot............ Weather is one of the most awe inspiring forces on earth. It's capable of both devastating power and spectacular beauty. Where ever you are on the planet, weather shapes your world. Yet how it works is a mystery for most of us.Weather, even the everyday stuff, is full of mystery and wonder. Yet despite scientists studying it for thousands of years, we know far less about how it actually works than you might expect. The hidden mechanics at work are often amazing and sometimes downright magical.In this series Richard Hammond gets right in amongst weather to discover the unexplained and the unexpected, the unbelievable and the just plain unlikely, in an attempt to reveal the hidden world of weather
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Network......... BBC One
Country......... United Kingdom
Language........ English
Runtime......... 50 mins
Status.......... Ended
Air Date........ Monday 21:00
URL............. https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/11212/wild-weather-with-richard-hammond
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Episode Name.... Water: The Shape Shifter
Season.......... 1x02
Plot............ Richard Hammond investigates the crucial role water plays. Without water there would be almost no weather: no rain, no snow, no hail, no clouds. So Richard goes in pursuit of water in all its forms. He tries toweigh a cloud, finds out how rain could crush a car, and gets involved in starting an avalanche.Along the way, he tries to find out why clouds float by building his own cloud with the aid of a cattle trough, some humidifiers and atmospheric scientist Dr Jim McQuaid. But will their cloud float in the air like a real cloud?He also drops in on renowned hail scientist Charles Knight in his lab in Boulder, Colorado, to discover that there is far more to hail than meets the eye. In a scientific first, and with the help of Jim Stratton and Craig Zehrung from Purdue University, Richard sets about firing ice and hail at a board to find out which does the most damage.Finally, in conjunction with the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF in Davos, Richard joins Walter Steinkogler as he starts an avalanche in an attempt to find out how something as delicate and fragile as a snowflake can travel at extraordinary speeds of up to 250mph on the ground
Runtime......... 50 mins
Air Date........ 2014-12-08 Monday, 16:00
URL............. https://www.tvmaze.com/episodes/557560/wild-weather-with-richard-hammond-1x02-water-the-shape-shifter
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Episode Name.... Temperature: The Driving Force
Season.......... 1x03
Plot............ Richard Hammond investigates the crucial role temperature plays in all weather. Without heat, there would be no weather - no clouds, no rain, no snow, no dust storms, no thunder and lightning.Richard sets off to find out about hot air and with the help of a quarry and a massive hot plate discovers just why it is so hard to pull a sword out of snow. He discovers, by building his own massive dust storm with the help of a few friends and dust specialist Dr Nigel Tapper, just how sand from the Sahara bounces its way to the UK.In Canada he creates his own ice storm. He also drops in on Dan Morgan, who creates lightning bolts in his lab, where Richard is able to see thunder and hear lightning with the aid of some special cameras, light bulbs and a few candles
Runtime......... 50 mins
Air Date........ 2014-12-15 Monday, 16:00
URL............. https://www.tvmaze.com/episodes/557561/wild-weather-with-richard-hammond-1x03-temperature-the-driving-force
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