About the series
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 remains a mystery for most of us.
In this series Richard Hammond gets right in amid 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.
View the episode guides below to find out more.
Here at OpenLearn, we have compiled a great range of resources to accompany the series. You can:
- Order your free wild weather poster
- Create and share your own wild weather kitchen experiments by watching these videos
- Try a short course on weather - produced in partnership with the Royal Meteorological Society
- Take it further by seeing what The Open University has to offer
You can watch the programme on Monday at 9pm on BBC One, starting from 1st December 2014. For more information about the series, visit the BBC website.
We have a series of low cost 100-hour flexible online courses introducing fascinating topics in science. These allow you to learn about a topic just for interest or maybe enable you to try out a new area of study before you commit yourself to further study. They feature:
- The support of an expert learning adviser who can clarify study materials, answer questions and help you relate the course to your specific needs.
- An online interactive quiz that you can attempt as many times as you wish to help you test your own learning.
- A statement of participation from the OU which you can use to demonstrate your engagement with the course. (N.B. The course does not carry academic credit points.)