How Does Weather Actually Work? | Richard Hammond's Wild Weather Compilation | Earth Stories

Weather is one of the most astonishing forces on earth. With devastating power and spectacular beauty, no matter where on this planet you live. But for most of us, how it actually works is a mystery. To really understand the science behind weather, Richard Hammond takes on some ambitious and brave experiments to show us weather like we’ve never seen before.
Starting with how wind actually originates, Hammond visits one of the windiest places on the planet, Mount Washington, New Hampshire. He walks into the centre of a man-made tornado and creates a 10-metre high whirlwind - made of fire! He then investigates the crucial role of water and tries to weigh a cloud, finds out how rain could crush a car and gets involved in starting an avalanche before finally finishing with the crucial role temperature plays in the role of weather and natural disasters alike.
Wind: 00:00-56:53
Water: 56:54- 1:43:44
Temperature: 1:43:45-2:51:11
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[@vortmax7788]

I have been a professional meteorologist for over 30 years and found this series very enjoyable to watch. Always cool to observe the physics of the atmosphere through scientific experimentation. Well done Hamster!

[@jim2561]

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[@ELXABER]

Another Top Gear fan, huh? 🤣 That's why I clicked on it too, I thought 'Hamster on weather, ok, let's see if he can manage not to crash something.'

[@ELXABER]

Oh geez, I commented before I watched. Busteed up arm within 10 mins, he does not disappoint. 🤣

[@liambodden5165]

I bop

[@NO122221]

@@ELXABER you do realise that most of his crashes were scripted?

[@tinyhotopicbitch]

What a fine young fellow with a great skill for presenting, he should host a show of some sort! The BBC should look into giving him a series, perhaps as part of a trio with 2 other lads?

[@ryanswansey9433]

lol

[@kevenbassett7323]

BBC + the Old 'Lad'. First, break the ice over hell ..

[@stewartbladensb]

Yeh, I’m thinking something to do with cars. Could be on to a winner…….if only.

[@Paradoxical124]

You aren’t funny or creative

[@tinyhotopicbitch]

@@Paradoxical124 At least i'm not a miserable human being

[@divAPEX]

came for richard, stayed for the science... and Richard

[@richardclark.]

Thx. I get that a lot.

[@ohheyitskevinc]

Reed’s done a lot more since this was filmed. He’s on here too, so you can see him live stream his chases and intercepts. Hurricanes and other nasty weather too. The probes have evolved a lot over the years too. There’s also a Dominator Fore. A Subaru hit with hail so much it looks and feels like a golf ball. Hence the name.

[@ScottishPixie87]

Love Richard Hammond makes programs easier to watch

[@gibbersking6575]

Woooooo - Mt. Washington!!! A friend, my Hubby and I visited Mt. Washington October, 2018 LOOOOOVED it!! At base, partly sunny and mild (t-shirt weather and we brought parkas, gloves, etc.). Gusts were 60 mph. (Gusts, nothing! Seemed pretty steady at full force to me!!) I weigh ~ 137 pounds so I was almost at my upright limit. A fellow tourist took a terrific photo of us. A day to remember, forever!

[@TisTheDamnStickSeason]

I'm not used to Reed Timmer being calm lol

[@ghomerhust]

richard is just such a fantastic presenter. i could watch him all day

[@bend3rbot]

He never fails to make something really interesting, absolutely annoyingly aimed at 11 year olds.

[@richardclark.]

I get that all the time. Thanks so much!

[@stc3145]

This is a strange Grand Tour special

[@wesleyb_92]

Reed in the dominator rolling up was so epic. Love him. Never stop chasing

[@juanitaj5248]

fell to sleep watching something, heard this at just after 1:am ,,, 2:55 still up watching, Auto play can keep you up at nite hitting on a good vid, gonna be tired tomorrow. A good watch , ty

[@Scampi95]

This is actually amazing, Hammond is such a good presenter! I learned loads of things I didn't know before!

[@adventureisourname9322]

Well done guys! Best Proper People episode! This is a facinating presentation of a working steam plant. Alex is a pleasure to listen to and his passion for steam engines is contagious. Would love to see Alex have his own videos with you guys filming again❤

[@dz3067]

I was quite lucky to see the dominator 3 vehicle on my way to Kansas City earlier this year. They were hauling, and I kept up with them for about 20 minutes before they turned off onto a dirt road. I just barley got a couple pictures for proof. It's such a cool looking vehicle; like and stealth armadillo. I'm going to wishfully think they were running late to film this segment.

[@michaelschneider-]

+1 .. Enjoyed this ... with a presentation by Richard Hammond immensely.

[@davidthepianoplayer]

Qaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[@delhog6161]

I’m so pleased Hammy did go into the twister. He would most definitely have been sucked out through the air vent, never to be seen again.🙏🇬🇧👍

[@jaimedavis439]

its not just the size or the wind speed of a tornado that make it dangerous, but the debris.

[@gilesinontario9193]

Ya sometimes it's not that the wind is blowing, it's what the wind is blowing lol. I think thats a stand up comedy bit from someone but it's also true

[@user-tp3vg3hb7i]

came for richard, stayed for the science... and Richard. I would be terrified thereReally cool video!.

[@gregleonard6895]

What an amazing documentary. Thank you so much. As a pilot and a Canadian Living in a northern climate. I learned a lot. Again thank you.

[@Woodys238]

All the old skool Brainiacs back in one place, just a little older! 🤣👊🏻🔥

[@s.o.s.exploration2412]

Im glad Richard Hammond has gotten a chance to see the one guy who fits the main character of the 1990s movie Twister to a T, Reed Timmer...! Hope he gets picked up again by a network. I follow him on KZbin as well.

[@TisTheDamnStickSeason]

Hamster is dominating

[@Tomsm8]

how long ago was the wind episode originally filmed do you know?

[@s.o.s.exploration2412]

@Tom's m8 well the first episode Aired on December 1st,2014 according to IMDB. That site is a great place to find out questions like that. ;-) for any movie or show.

[@Tomsm8]

@@s.o.s.exploration2412 i..m..d what now? im old y'know lol thanks a lot.

[@s.o.s.exploration2412]

@@Tomsm8 Hitting 40 next year. Your not the only one. Hehe

[@mrbigsausage6918]

Richard Hammond Popular for Top gear in my country does a really great job in Documentaries like this and hope to see more 👍

[@jeanbloom7513]

Enjoyed this!

[@richardwilliams1334]

love this program mate, hope you have other of the same project lined up. Thanking you from NZ

[@user-tc9dz1mi5y]

Loved this! Hope to watch more about other subjects

[@melony123]

Richard has finally become a real American. 'How much does that cloud weigh?' About one elephant or that many jumbo jets. Anything but the metric system😂

[@amwf_king]

Perfect napping video

[@tracyheaslip8754]

You positively protect people.

[@Madpegasusmax]

Way to go Hammond , really good show ,very instructif .

[@-LightningRod-]

I think it's pretty cool that We Learned HOW to fly a Planet. Maybe We should put some control knobs on the Flight Controls.

[@OasisTrimaran]

Thanks for another refreshing presentation of our weather ✨👍🏽 Oh what a brilliant and talented recourse we have with you. Looking forward to following your meteorological career☀️❄️🌦️ 🤙🏽

[@deborahdougherty3208]

Love it!

[@McKlunkers]

I really should go to sleep. I'll just quickly watch this 3 hour documentary about weather first.

[@duke_lutz]

So much info. Tanx . I enjoyed it very much

[@InvisiblePerson704]

I watched it, from the start to the end, and OH MY, what a vídeo!

[@oldworldmichigan705]

Thank you, that was so good. You are a beautiful person

[@quantumentangle154]

More please ❤

[@0ninetyseven97]

love these kind of videos

[@LimeJuice0308]

I’m watching this instead of sleeping

[@suzieb8366]

Amazing!

[@simonjones7785]

there is a bit of the pyromabiac in all of us the beauty of the fire spout is something else / nice work Mr Hammond and team

[@terrystabletalk5733]

Tremendous good video keep em coming

[@Boris_Chang]

brilliant!!

[@user-ih3du7vj6w]

You're a rising star! ⭐

[@macalao1982]

I would be terrified there😱😱😱 Really cool video!

[@dazingamaine4318]

ah kinda heartwarming seeing Richard being able to explain something without Jeremy attacking his being. always expecting his voice to come out when Richard asks a question admonishing him XD

[@kepler656]

They are adults, friends and most importantly, actors. Hammond is fine

[@rickrodgers9277]

Thank you or this brilliant video of education.

[@climatedisasterdocumentaries]

Thank you for watching!! 🌍

[@handendaer]

Education for The public school, bdead, zombies :) booster 💉😷🌈❤️😇👩‍❤️‍👩👩‍🎓

[@jcd3869]

Cloud collecting was cool

[@georgex231]

that's how EVERYTHING connecting in nature.. hail has layers like trees 🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@arelendil7]

Science even more exciting than cars! I am happy you are doing this, Hammond 😃 I hope it will raise awareness of what it can become our planet under global warming. Weather is going to be more extreme. We should be very concerned and invest a lot in research to palliate its effects. We are not prepared and we are not doing enough to be prepared!

[@eschdaddy]

Studied meteorology from 3 years old, through my junior year in college and changed to engineering. Thought I knew anything you’d have on this video… I was wrong. Definition of rain and drizzle… why the hell didn’t I know that?!?

[@AliTheIrfan]

Because you're 3years old 😅

[@eschdaddy]

@@AliTheIrfan: Huh? From 3 years old… FROM 3.

[@AliTheIrfan]

@@eschdaddy ok my bad.🙏

[@eschdaddy]

@@AliTheIrfan: No worries. You started my Monday off with a laugh. Thank-you for that. 👍

[@Tomsm8]

just fly the drone at 200 ft and zoom in. lmao good job it survived that smoke ay...

[@AlexandrosPanagio]

This legend.

[@kristigarrigan7046]

When yall were experimenting with the todnado machine it reminded me of the movie twister.

[@muza-kw3pk]

The Ultimate!

[@dread2689]

Watch this off in one sit really entertaining

[@javierlopez9329]

Love the hard work put into the show! So much passion from every individual included 🙌🏼

[@andreasSoyland]

😊😊

[@climatedisasterdocumentaries]

thank you for watching!! 🌍

[@brendonhughes9002]

When car guys and weather collide makes a cyclone of itself.

[@PabloDiablo682]

I've been to the top of Mt. Washington and it is crazy up there.

[@juanitaj5248]

did you ride the cog / train ? frightening as all hell

[@PabloDiablo682]

@@juanitaj5248 Driving it is even more frightening. I have done both. I do not know how insurance co. let that go on. Peoples cars have fallen over the side and it is almost straight down in lots of places. Going up is worse because you have the outside lane. Last time I was there was in the 90's and large portions have no guard rails.

[@lettydragon4299]

i really love long informational videos, also Richards voice has always been soothing and pleasant. amazing video x

[@richardclark.]

Thank you. I am starting an ASMR channel. Stay tuned!

[@bellebelle7868]

I remember last year in Uk Wiltshire we were told not to drive or leave our homes during certain hours of the day and of course I tried to walk into town like an idiot in this 60mph wind and I swear for a split second my feet left the ground and I couldn’t breathe it scared the hell out of me! Never again lol

[@adostandley7047]

i can imagine how scary that mustve been

[@randyiron2]

Wow!! Kitty is very very pretty!

[@tr4nce206]

Nice video

[@oak_meadow9533]

I watched a tornado cross an Air Force Base in Oklahoma, it picked up an 18 wheeler and twisted it into a rope, then dropped it beyond the horizon!

[@pazzo5150]

DO IT AGAIN BABY !

[@KarlozPosada]

I am totally amazed by your documentary ... Can you do more a specific in how a snowflake is formed please ?

[@ge45gecalled39]

Wow, thanks,

[@Mr.Anarchy77]

If James May did this it would've been 5 hr long

[@grannynara]

I've always thought that tornadoes were living things. Angry living things. A real tornado of course has debris in it that can kill you, more than the wind itself. Also if it picks you up and tosses you out somewhere else. That'll do you in, too. Such a fascinating subject matter. Sometimes I think I missed my calling to be a tornado chaser.

[@alpha_streamers]

ਰੱਬ ਦੇ ਰੰਗ ਨੇ ਸੱਬ 🙏🏻

[@Zarghoon]

If we knew how weather works, we'd know what every tomorrow brings.

[@zorilaz]

We do know that

[@djosearth3618]

we do know what every tomorrow brings unfortunately and it really doesn't look good unless you're a sadist or one of the 'humans' that have in barely over the last 80 years (give or take a JFK) 'legally' stolen 99%+ of western wealth (you know the countries whom already stole most of the rest of the planet's civilization's wealth which they when not "lost at seas" then handed over to the bankster's anyways.

[@Valigarmanda]

we know weather enough to know that it changes on a whim.

[@Aluminata]

I was just about to say...(9.08 ) I never saw you secure your furry hat thing - but you obviously must have because it hasn't been ripped of your - 😮 😂

[@xcgvhjk]

Very nice show! Richard Hammond is such an amazing man. I am always happy to see him. Ps. Walter has the ugliest winter hat i have seen!

[@EhRabz]

I'm from London , ON , and I had NO idea this existed.... Such a boring town with such cool stuff that's never shared.

[@outlawdingo3020]

I’ve been stuck in a huge cyclone years back in my car when I was travelling in my ute. Long story short I was fine car sustained some damage but was fixable and I still have that car as a daily driver 😂

[@wong4728]

North by north west scene was good

[@amirpdeilami]

"The whirlpool is a definite form, but no water stays put in it. The whirlpool is something the stream is doing, and exactly the same way, the whole universe is doing each one of us, and I see each one of you today and I recognize you tomorrow, just as I would recognize a whirlpool in a stream. I'd say 'Oh yes, I've seen that whirlpool before, it's just near so-and-so's house on the edge of the river, and it's always there.' So in the same way when I meet you tomorrow, I recognize you, you're the same whirlpool you were yesterday. But you're moving. The whole world is moving through you, all the cosmic rays, all the food you're eating, the stream of steaks and milk and eggs and everything is just flowing right through you. When you're wiggling the same way, the world is wiggling, the stream is wiggling you." - Alan Watts

[@llYossarian]

39:22 - Oh, come on... don't act like you're actually having this idea and it didn't come from Twister.

[@tomharmston1661]

people had that idea long before twister

[@llYossarian]

@@tomharmston1661 Not really... stationary radar units had been able to get that kind of data for decades and the many flying telemetry probes thing is _only_ an invention of the movie and has never before or since even been _attempted_ by meteorologists because it's both redundant and unnecessarily complicated ...or did you mean "had the idea" like everyone has the idea for a flying car or just that we all notice how leaves "trace" the path of the wind at some point?

[@veritas41photo]

Ever try driving a vehicle in Freezing Rain? Or, even worse, in Freezing Fog? The fog droplets are so tiny they rapidly encase your windshield in ice. That ice just builds thickness in record amounts (and minimum time). If this happens to you (like it has so many times in high-altitude Wyoming where I live) you might as well just pull over to the side of the road and try to scrape that ice away (if you can get the heater to warm the windshield just enough). Or just wait until it gets better. And wait.... And wait...

[@ingridakerblom7577]

Thats why you get Nokia hakkapeliitta tyres.. and have them on from october to april..

[@michaelschneider-]

@@ingridakerblom7577 ...+1 Agreed. Cheers, Vail Colorado

[@natejohnston480]

Me and a friend were blasting the heat and it wouldn’t defrost after even a smoking hot interior and hour of waiting 😂 gotta love Wyo

[@prepperjonpnw6482]

Been there done that 😂 Even having de-icing fluid in the windscreen fluid doesn’t always work lol 😢 Now I have a small heater that plugs in to the 12v outlet that I place on the dash while running the defroster 😂😊

[@MisterMister5893]

@@ingridakerblom7577 Michigan just had a snow storm in the month of may.

[@SorceressRin]

Hamster ❤

[@romevien6408]

I would love to be this guy travels around the world four times to make one program LOL

[@janellebillings9747]

I am a high school earth sceince teacher....any change there are questions to go along with this?

[@sp88tips]

This guy doing science is ironic af James May must roll his eyes non-stop

[@thesecond4113]

Hammond!!!! (Jeremy Clarkson's voice)

[@bellebelle7868]

Brainiac ❤️❤️

[@endangeredsensebtyb-jl5070]

LOVE ALL THOSE CHEMTRAILS IN BACKGROUND DNT YALL??? WOW PROGRAMMING SUCH???...

[@richardclark.]

You mean the condensation from plane exhaust? Have you noticed your car does as well in the winter? Have you placed chemicals in your car?

[@truefiasco2637]

a bit disappointed about the foam squares and the indoor tornado, if James May did it he'd of used hundreds of paper planes.

[@carlbarkham3115]

And clarkson would of used hammers.

[@pierresauce8307]

All of them would've used "have"

[@beatsbygoldie2383]

@@pierresauce8307thank you

[@mweezy]

​@@pierresauce8307Homer Simpson: Why you little... 🤪

[@thisismyspout]

If this was done by James may it would be a 60 hour video covering all conflicts and inventions globally for the last 140 years.

[@Michael-gi5th]

Wonder would the dominator hold with a high end ef5 though?

[@lexinexi-hj7zo]

1:28:22 How do you make ice last 15' years? Every time I make ice cubes they seem to sublimate after a few weeks?

[@richardclark.]

Sublimation comes from air moving past the surface. Stop the air. Stop sublimation.

[@jazfili7524]

I used to live in the Midwest then moved to the pnw...... Who are there no thunderstorms?

[@prepperjonpnw6482]

I’m in the PNW and we get huge thunderstorms every year. Most years they cause fires in our forests. Several times I have had to pull under an overpass or bridge to escape hail bigger than golf balls lol 😮

[@randoorlando443]

I cant he the only one that watched this souly becuase richard hammond in it

[@conor7154]

The dramatization of the tornado people was hilarious. “It’s coming right for us!” Lmao

[@TerraOmnis]

This reminds me of Richard Hammond in his Brainiac days

[@prepperjonpnw6482]

Was that a show? If yes do you know where I can watch it? I really enjoy his style of presenting, he’s my favourite on Top Gear 😊

[@TerraOmnis]

@@prepperjonpnw6482 Some of it is on KZbin, just type "Brainiac Richard Hammond"

[@em945]

Hey Guys, are you able to cut this up in size. Just too long for a sitting? Looks great though.

[@briandstephmoore4910]

It's already in seperate parts. Search Richard Hammond and the specific episode you want. Wind, water, fire etc

[@em945]

@@briandstephmoore4910 thanks!

[@Tomsm8]

you know you can come back and watch it in 3 parts if you like, all you have to do is hit pause. lmfao people are silly.

[@Topper_Harley68]

When was this made?

[@bageyboy6738]

It’s just his voice it’s soo soothing and so familiar it can be the worst show and somehow he can make anything good

[@teresaarvidson44]

Richard is most definitely "eye candy"!

[@Nosmajszl]

HAMMMOCK

[@temperboy5460]

21:13 25 years in experience. How is that possible when drones were invented somewhere around 2012.

[@richardclark.]

Drones aren't the only thing to ever fly with a camera on them. Lol. It didn't say 25 years of drone cameras. And actually, they have been around that long anyway.

[@chadsimmons6347]

we had a long cold winter, now we face a long hot summer, this climate is still the same!