Where To Stream Timeshift Season 14 Episode 2
Killer Storms and Cruel Winters - The History of Extreme Weather
- Aired July 28, 2014
- 60 Min
If you think Britain has recently been on the end of some of the worst floods and storms ever experienced, think again. So says solar scientist Dr Lucie Green, as she takes a journey back through our most turbulent and dramatic weather history. She finds an 18th-century storm surge that killed over a thousand people working in open Somerset fields, a hurricane that drowned a fifth of the British Navy and winters so bitter that the country came close to total shutdown. But she also explores how...