Season 2
episodes
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, 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.
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.
A rare tornado decimates a small town in rural Uruguay, snaring a man in his car and obliterating a huge warehouse.
In South Africa, the Cape is struck by both a violent storm and catastrophic wildfires that overwhelm the emergency services.
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.
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.
Devastating mudflows flatten the Californian coastal community of Montecito; a sudden flash flood sweeps up an inexperienced kayaker in South Africa.
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.
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.
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.
Irma, a category five hurricane, devastates the Caribbean. In Fiji, a carer battles catastrophic floods to reach children at an orphanage.
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.