Savage Skies

All Episodes 1996

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  • 1996-05-05T23:00:00Z
  • 42m
  • 2h 48m (4 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
With respect and wonder and a sense of poetry, “Savage Skies” looks at the Earth’s weather.

4 episodes

Series Premiere

1996-05-05T23:00:00Z

1x01 Fire and Rain

Series Premiere

1x01 Fire and Rain

  • 1996-05-05T23:00:00Z42m

This episode provides a lyrical if sobering look at rain and clouds, including interviews with survivors of flash floods that struck Lynmouth, England, in 1952 and Big Thompson Canyon, Colo., in 1976.

1996-05-05T23:00:00Z

1x02 Riders on the Storm

1x02 Riders on the Storm

  • 1996-05-05T23:00:00Z42m

This episode explores the staggering power of tornadoes and lightning - and travels with “storm chasers” on the hunt for a tornado.

1996-05-06T23:00:00Z

1x03 Monsters of the Deep

1x03 Monsters of the Deep

  • 1996-05-06T23:00:00Z42m

This episode starts with the ocean, then introduces its ferocious offspring, hurricanes. Of particular interest: Hurricane Andrew, which struck several Miami suburbs with full force in 1992.

Season Finale

1996-05-06T23:00:00Z

1x04 The Winter’s Tale

Season Finale

1x04 The Winter’s Tale

  • 1996-05-06T23:00:00Z42m

This episode poses the question, What is snow?, as well as visiting the residents of Oimyakon, the world’s coldest inhabited village, a Siberian settlement where pens won’t write (the ink freezes solid) and milk is sold in frozen blocks.

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