Episodes
Episode 1
December 27, 2019
A record-breaking twister rips through Alabama. In South Africa, a violent storm with near-hurricane winds breaks the mooring lines of super-tankers.
Hurricane Harvey
January 3, 2020
Hurricane Harvey, one of the most powerful hurricanes to strike the United States, rips a coastal town apart and dumps a once-in-a-thousand-years rainfall that drowns the city of Houston.
Episode 3
January 10, 2020
Two devastating earthquakes hit Mexico in quick succession; an Australian storm chaser becomes trapped in the middle of the most powerful tornado ever recorded in El Reno, Oklahoma.
Largest Lava Lake
January 17, 2020
A rare tornado decimates a small town in rural Uruguay, snaring a man in his car and obliterating a huge warehouse.
Episode 5
January 24, 2020
In South Africa, the Cape is struck by both a violent storm and catastrophic wildfires that overwhelm the emergency services.
Glacier Flood
January 31, 2020
A student chronicles 2017's Hurricane Maria as it decimates Puerto Rico. A hailstorm destroys a Dallas family home. A wilderness hiker clings on for dear life in a flash flood.
Episode 7
February 7, 2020
North California is besieged by a spate of raging wildfires. In Costa Rica, a tourist pleasure boat capsizes and in North Carolina, a tornado hits a superstore packed with shoppers.
Montecito Mudflows
February 14, 2020
Devastating mudflows flatten the Californian coastal community of Montecito; a sudden flash flood sweeps up an inexperienced kayaker in South Africa.
Avalanche Rescue
February 21, 2020
A bomb cyclone detonates across northeast America, snaring an elderly Michigan couple in a mass freeway pile-up. A hiker loses her nerve high on Ben Nevis.
National Park Fire
February 28, 2020
Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains live up to their name as America's most popular national park goes up in flames. Meanwhile a mega typhoon pulverises Macao.
Episode 11
March 6, 2020
The worst earthquake in almost a century strikes Ecuador. Meanwhile, Indiana suffers one of its worst ever tragedies as a storm blows down the main stage during a festival.
Episode 12
March 13, 2020
Irma, a category five hurricane, devastates the Caribbean. In Fiji, a carer battles catastrophic floods to reach children at an orphanage.
Episode 13
March 20, 2020
Heatwave Lucifer burns though Europe, triggering some of the worst wildfires in Portugal's history, while a Mojave mudslide traps motorists in a raging torrent of sludge.
