Wild Weather 1. DVD 1996 Vad időjárás / Produced by Jane Aldous, Graham Booth / Presented by Donal MacIntyre /

Episodes 1-2 (Wind, Wet)

UPC 5996473005657  /  5999016370977

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN EUROPE

Audio:  English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0

Subtitles: -

Runtime: 99 minutes

English Summary:

Wild Weather is a major BBC documentary exploring the extremes of the world's climate with the engaging presenter Donal MacIntyre. The four one-hour programmes focus on wind, wet, cold and heat, and explore how these produce hurricanes, monsoons, ice storms and tornadoes, as well as regulate the global environment. MacIntyre, best known for his investigative series MacIntyre Undercover (1999), travels the world, from beneath the North Pole to the saturated humidity of the Belise tropical rainforest. Bringing to mind the daredevil John Noakes from 1970s Blue Peter, MacIntyre skydives, is battered by a wild tunnel, frozen in an ice-box, subjected to a reservoir flood and endures a marathon across the Sahara. Survivors' accounts tell the stories of such disasters as Hurricane Andrew, a New York state snow storm and the flood of Britain's eastern coast in 1953. The intelligent use of computer graphics enhances clear explanations of the jet stream, ocean currents and other phenomena, in a series which is part geography lesson (but with a great teacher), part reality TV entertainment show.

Episodes are: 'Wind', 'Wet', 'Cold' and 'Heat'.

Episodes on disc:

WIND

In the first programme, WIND, 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 and finds out how the fastest wind on earth, the jet stream, was put to deadly use by the Japanese in the Second World War. We will see how the wind can turn from the cooling breeze of a summer day to a devastating tornado and how a wind from space can literally flatten the planet.

WET

The second in the theme is WET and 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. He follows the route of the Thermohaline Conveyor, which leads to the warm seas of the Caribbean and the awesome power of floods. The devastating effects were seen in Honduras in 1998, where 75 inches of rain fell in a week. In Texas the opposite is true, there is no rain, which is why local farmers are hoping to find a solution by exploring ways of manufacturing rain!

Hungarian Summary:

Pattanj fel egy hurrikánra, utazz a vihar középpontjába, repülj egy cseppel a víz körforgásában. A sorozat lélegzetállító filmes megoldásokkal és számítógépes grafikával juttatja a nézőt az események középpontjába. Láthatóvá teszi világunk láthatatlan csodáit: az elképzelhetetlen szeleket, hihetetlen viharokat és elsöprő áradatokat a múltban és a jelenben. A sorozat felteszi a végső kérdést Földünk meteorológiai szakértőinek: Vajon az ember uralma alá hajthatja az időjárást?

Vad időjárás 1.

Az 1. DVD-n található epizódok : Szél, Csapadék.