The Devastating Power Of Water | Richard Hammond's Wild Weather | Spark

[@johannolivier377]

I like the fact that Richard uses his fame to advance scientific knowledge. It’s easily understood, well explained, and made simple for the average dufus, such as me. And I love learning.

[@tomw2919]

Johann Olivier Do you think he doesn’t get paid for it?

[@johannolivier377]

Tom W Of course he is getting paid. However, he could have been doing something else with his fame, rather that do something that is educational and interesting.

[@mrarnold96]

@@johannolivier377 I agree. For example Kim Kardashian. Instead of using her fame to advance scientific knowledge, she use it for fake documentary and enlarging her arse

[@RealCadde]

Hammond wasn't instantly famous. He worked as a radio presenter for BBC until he joined Top Gear in 2002. Already in 2003 (again, not really famous at that time) he also presented the show "Brainiac: Science Abuse". My point is, Richard Hammond has always done science stuff even before he became famous. Not much different from James May i might add. Except James is also very much into doing fiddly stuff.

[@davekp6773]

All three do it, although Jeremy veers more toward engineering. Jeremy presented Inventions which changed the World for instance.

[@sazk8604]

This should be shown in high school for kids, Richard Hammond is a great narrator and he goes in to great depth in explaining visually as well as audibly.

[@ArsalanMustafakhan]

These have to be the most under-rated documentaries. This is literally better then 95% of content on KZbin, if not more

[@polishavgeek1849]

Except for clips from the old Top Gear or the Grand Tour

[@Mk101T]

As if you could have seen anywhere near 100% of the content to know that ? You only have yourself to blame with your clicking habits for what the algorithm cues up . And you should know that compliments born out of negativity are not really much of a compliment.

[@angelique7618]

Well said, I totally agree.

[@angelique7618]

@@polishavgeek1849 what is a clup

[@polishavgeek1849]

@@angelique7618 Oh, it's a word

[@NoizyBoyUS]

*Richard drops water off wrong side of the building* Jeremy: "Hammond you eeediot" James: *Wheezing in laughter*

[@monara97]

fuck man 😂

[@BBROPHOTO]

ahahaha 😂

[@Brisingrize]

Usually, it's Hammond you blithering idiot XD, I used to watch top gear when the trio was part of it. My favourite is still the flying washing machine.

[@catwithabat7163]

You got Jeremy wrong: HAMMUND YOU BLITHERING EEEEEEDIOOTTT

[@novaboogaloo2]

Tonight on the grand tour: Hammond harrases a cloud

[@jabirbashir7436]

Seriously underrated comment I laughed so hard

[@thenameisgsarci]

"I did not have sexual relations with the cloud."

[@oleskeide4938]

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[@oleskeide4938]

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[@Mr.Reflex84]

james talk to some sheep and i eat some rainnnn...

[@alfguimaraes]

I can hear Jeremy Yelling HAMMOND! lo

[@LoneWolf47603]

Followed shortly by “You blithering idiot!”

[@Orcman666]

Too bad the old days are over, i would love to see Hammond releasing a giant dildo into a tornado or something :D

[@user_name35tdekb4]

I just read it in Clarkson's voice

[@sadjackaboy1366]

And James yelling “HAMOND YOU MUPPET”

[@Hydroslinky515]

You can't not read it in their voices lol

[@samkelly3655]

Did anyone else find this calming or just me? The music, rain sounds along with his fairly soft voice almost made me wanna sleep.

[@paradoxxaudiovisualproduct9430]

No. That is james may.

[@matthewdaub]

As much as hammond is associated with top gear, the amount of engineering and science knowledge he has delivery through his narrating shows is amazing.

[@justforever96]

You know he doesn't actually write this stuff, right? it is a script, he reads what thy give him. And acts surprised like it wasn't expected.

[@viktor8321]

Finally a star that uses his fame for something educating instead of the next stupid talent show for example :) Great stuff Hammond!

[@russliquid4858]

I like the fact you leave “mistakes” or less than ideal circumstances in the show. It adds to the relatability, and thus facilitates a sort of empathetic learning. Good job, well done!

[@CARLIN4737]

what?

[@russliquid4858]

@@CARLIN4737 oh sorry, translation: learning good! teacher good, but not soo good teacher is perfect.. me good, but not too good im perfect. me good like teacher... me feel more connected to learning, because application of knowledge, presented in a realistic tangible way is a most effective means by which facts/concepts/theories come to life. (hope u caught the last part, i couldn't keep up the facetious tone) 😉 (ps hope u didnt take response as an attack on ur intelligence, the goal of communication is to convey ideas clearly ((which apparently i did not achieve) of course im just guessing that's what was meant by ur laconic retort) *i guess its possible siri or alexa didnt read my reply loud enough* {I'm pretty sure the most perfect response to all this would be "huh"?}

[@spitefulraven]

30:35 Idk much about Richard aside from weather docs but his bewildered reaction to the guy eagerly offering to saw a 10yr old hailstone in half is golden 😂and the way the guy just chuckles and gets to it.

[@patrickdaniel7284]

This is what happened when hamster starts to remember stuff.

[@jacobmeza91]

😂😂😂dogggggggg

[@siNicSiew]

26:18 Even on a different show, Hammond can't catch a break 😂

[@GOTHICforLIFE1]

Really love Hammond's series! Always interesting, and you learn a lot you've always thought about but never really bothered to look up xD

[@GruntyFargo]

Richard has the best narration presentation since Attenborough

[@rakura]

So glad this was in my recommended... Need more of this... Love Richard Hammond's narration. No fluff just fun information.

[@anchorbait6662]

Hamster talking about water for an hour. It's my wet dream.

[@budakbaongsiah]

Wet, eh?

[@Mango-vd1nn]

Yeah, water

[@rodwellvanwyk01]

Really appreciate Richard Hammond, he is truly gifted. Anyone can understand the details of every study. He is witty and uses humor to get a point across, absolutely brilliant 👏

[@lankypanda1]

more we need more of this because its interesting

[@yammmit]

Michael Seabrook it’s*

[@Flyingwalrus42]

Agreed I love to see them all do their own specials and shows

[@Lerssinen]

Hammond is good narrator, i like it and im not even native English speaker myself.. !

[@the-potato-warrior]

Lerssinen we can tell

[@arshiachhabra4650]

@@the-potato-warrior Don't be rude

[@the-potato-warrior]

Arshia Chhabra or?

[@arshiachhabra4650]

@@the-potato-warrior Nothing, I don't even know you

[@arshiachhabra4650]

Its just kindness

[@deepakkr]

Amazing slow-motion footages from 19:30

[@lourias]

This was a delightful, educational video... I appreciated the humor 😜 Richard Hammond injected, remnants of Top Gear. 🚘 LOVE IT!!! 🤪

[@TheChristianFangirl]

I had to watch this for my meteorology class, but I must say, this was a very fascinating documentary. It reminded me a lot of the older Mythbusters episodes.

[@skysurferuk]

Clouds normally live at the top of thermals. Great content, most enjoyable. Didn't realise that Richard had a pilot's licence... good man!

[@ryzenryne8747]

24:48 Imagine the effort of making your own big sand castle in the beach just to be ruined by your little sister.

[@petterforsberg1773]

A shame this doesn't have more views than it does! Fantastic production, and great presenting by Hamster!

[@riemjann1]

Maybe people don’t like to watch something with ads every two minutes? I for one stopped watching after 8; I’ve got better things to do

[@jobsonagufa3566]

Wow I just love how Richard digests and explains this into simple understanding Much love for your videos from 🇰🇪

[@darincurrington838]

Here's a long one - comment that is. Your channel is a new discovery for me. You have a great sense of humour and an attractive character to go along with great content. Thanks for all the vids (many of which I have still to watch). I watched your reaction to your first KZbin video and it was both amusing and unsettling. As someone who is about to start uploading vids frequently soon, I can see my awkward stiffness and forced humour/forced everything without even having to look back so it's daunting to expose myself all uninitiated and stuff. Hopefully I'm doing the right thing by moving ahead with my awkwardness and relying on good content and merciful viewers (ya, right) rather than trying to polish my performance before debuting. I feel like it's a bit like polishing a turd at this point anyway if I'm honest :P Anyway, my chanel is about builds and I'm very impressed with your DIY vids - you have some amazing ingenuity and great skills. Your results are seriously impressive. It's also cool that you're so local to me as I'm in the Fraser Valley. All the best!

[@macbuff81]

I like the childlike wonderment with which Richard presents science

[@wellcraft7447]

I think we can all relate to that

[@ogitchitamukwa7642]

OnTheAir89 those of us that can appreciate things like science at least

[@GehanAdel]

It was a prolific and informative episode. I was staggered with the painstaking labour you have done to make it simple and well explained thanks for this 🙏

[@princehassaniii530]

Right!!! I’m convinced Tom cruise is definitely Richard Hammond’s stunt double.

[@zaeemAtif]

after watching this i would appreciate WATER more than ever in my life.

[@ctdieselnut]

Imagine it raining caravans lol, or even sugur cubes for that matter. Love this series, hammond is a good presenter too. I always learn things. It gives answers to abstract questions, similar to ones I think of but keep to myself. For example, what's the weight of a cloud per unit of volume.

[@bruceweigle7597]

what a wonderful program!! First one ive watched. Cant wait to check out more:) The high speed photography is incredible!!!

[@freddoflintstono9321]

This is worth having to skip over the occasional ad, it's absolutely brilliant.

[@wildvillions]

Richard constantly playing with clouds from the machine 😂

[@CaptainSlow2469]

18:35 The reason why the trio is best and why we love them

[@williamsherrardpyc8201]

I just watched this in my science class today, very excited and pleased

[@mariusfrost640]

I live in Canada, which is in North America. We don't call ice pellets sleet, we use the same definition of a slushy mixture you do.

[@andymcneil7085]

Richard makes it fascinating. Most of it I found was general knowledge but then I did learn some stuff too.

[@seanns1945]

Richard says the cloud could weigh up to the weight of 2 elephants..............the next cloud that floated by, looked like it had a trunk. So the other elephant must have stayed aboard.

[@PilotExplorer]

18:42 such a TopGear moment this is

[@GBiv78]

Moist air is actually lighter than dry air, which seems counterintuitive but owes to the fact that O2 and N2 molecules are both heavier than H2O molecules

[@DanteGaia]

29:14 i have learned something new about hail, i am happy.

[@yamizer0]

we need to put this documentary in every school

[@mikeissweet]

You could tell that fella really valued that hailstone, and yet, he cut it open ❤

[@TheAandGprojects]

Imagine them just flying a sheep through the cloud instead of the sky sponge

[@_s_9920]

A sheep isn't very absorbant, they're covered in natural oil and grease from their skin so they don't freeze to death when it rains.

[@TheAandGprojects]

@@_s_9920 it'll make them trap more water :) , it was just a joke btw as there were looking at sheep's sorry if you mistook it.

[@DS-uj3bt]

Hammond is such a really good presenter...id listen to him explain how paint dries.

[@pavan151]

Okay, the very last experiment was bloody awesome!

[@steveshoemaker6347]

Super good stuff...Thanks...More more more...!

[@QueenDaenerysTargaryen]

This video🎥 is wonderful✨thank you❤🌹

[@robertpillowjr.1672]

That was a great show! It was very informative and yet also very entertaining! 👍👍

[@Relax0kay]

If you want to fall asleep peacefully try to watch this till the end

[@aaronseet2738]

10:47 and that's only multiplying by 2D area size and haven't accounted for the 3D volume size.

[@romeovkuki]

Falling in love❤ with Hammond 🥲😇😇

[@chillridesjohn]

Great stuff! I didn't even notice the time, this is very entertaining and also packed full of information, very well done!

[@johnweaver2128]

Hammond does such a great of explaining to the average listener than most others.

[@ericgeorge5483]

Absolutely fascinating. Every day is a school day and that is brilliant.

[@Rabblewitz]

Out of curiosity, where in America do we call ice pellets sleet? I've always known sleet as a mixture of rain and snow (I'm from the Western end of the North East). Though now that I think of it, I've encountered all three at the same time, and would still consider it sleet.

[@akhalil777]

a lots of answers of mind bugling every day natural phenomena..... Amazing

[@jabmd2nd]

I have seen this before . And i do not know why i am drawn to watch it again?

[@aspenxoxoxo]

Watched this is school, and haven't enjoyed an essay video more. Great job, I don't normally like science but this was an interesting documentary:)

[@darreno9874]

Honister is an awesome place, beautiful and interesting. God bless

[@MrSyriaMoon]

When Spark > National Geography.

[@snowleopard7952]

This is just wonderful. Thank You💦

[@jeffreyatlee8785]

Why is this video kindling my faith or is it my awe. I look at that thin slice of hailstone and I see tree rings but also galaxies. Damnit.

[@laurenswitte2052]

46:30 Notice the Fiat Panda 4x4 in the background

[@Dalorath]

@18:00 I Love your Jacket :-D

[@thomasvieth6063]

I'm stunned and speechless

[@Dalorath]

You gave me an idea for a new avalanche survival device :-D it acts as a half cone type structure that you can get below, and then has a piston to lift and push up as you dig with it, to get you out :-D You can deploy it quickly and buckle down... When the avalanche starts to settle, thats when you start pumping the device to make it pushes to the sides and up as you dig up and it follows around you to help... its a fairly simple concept, but building with strong enough materials to hold the weight and light enough to carry as a safety device is an issue... Each device should have a GPS sensor and a close range high frequency broadcast beacon for anyone searching :-D The main issue is to create it Fold-able, light, and Easy design to allow a flow over it instead of into you...

[@justforever96]

In New England we call slushy ice/snow mix "sleet" as well. I have never heard the other useage.

[@KeithFlint350]

30:49 this man obviously has spent a lot of time on cutting ice cubes

[@Studio-yc3ko]

19:30, hi, can I find out what's the title, or who composed that Soundtrack? Thank you.

[@samuelcookphippen]

How many more “in the advancement of science” series must Richard do before we’re referring to him as Sir Richard Mark Hammond? I’m American, so I have no idea what qualifies one for knighthood.

[@LP-xj7pm]

Samuel Phippen well if he does another 15 years I guess he could get a knight hood for services to entertainment

[@theetimer2986]

It requires a sword and an old person

[@adaptorperish1322]

Samuel Phippen You can use one of the greatest half-american inventions - Google, to find out. I suppose you can read letters in american, if not use another american invention - Siri on your iPhone. See, there are so many things for you to find shit out with, you don't even have to move your body...and yet you ask in the comments, like a wanker.

[@arshiachhabra4650]

@@adaptorperish1322 He's american, probably doesn't know what a wanker is... Also, why are you so crabby?

[@ctcdarkness]

Sad Endings tf is your problem? All he did was ask a question.

[@AlphaBravo860]

26:30 Who else thought it was going to smash the sand castle?

[@naturalsoundsofgaia]

I love rain and cloudy days

[@jeffreyatlee8785]

How did you spend the evening? Well I came with a title "Even Clouds Must Die." Thanks of course to the constant perils Mr Hammond puts his body through for our amusement, edification and of course education.

[@Dalorath]

@47:10 that unsung hero of a pilot deserves to be seen on camera, why weren't you filming him as he maneuvered??

[@dryzalmynelli9600]

Thanks Hamster. I had doubts but this new series is thoroughly entertaining!

[@outgoingcare]

Fast avalanche. Early snows build up in the mountains. Then the weather warms and the surface melts and freezes at night. Then another 12' or more of snow over the winter. Spring rains do not melt the snow, it runs thru. The water contacts the ice layer and lubricates it. When it lets go, the speed is unreal. Don't get in the way!

[@tanguero2k7]

«Oh, they're going to notice...» XD XD XD

[@mikebeatstsb7030]

How does that ice or hail firing machine work? I don't ge it...... how does piercing the back end of the tube there behind the projectile make it fire? What kind of setup is that....? it makes no sense to me. any body in the know care to share the knowledge❓

[@r.awilliams9815]

It's a vacuum cannon, there's a lot of videos on the subject. Basically, you seal the tube, draw a hard vacuum, and when you pierce the end the air rushing in forces the projectile down the tube, breaking the film on the muzzle end.

[@OctaApe]

I survived hurricane Irma when I lived west of Orlando, was nuts, I was right in the eye at one point and it really is oddly silent. I have no footage, power was out for 7 days. And I'm a pastey white Brit, not cool Florida..

[@amrabas2007]

Spark should do more collaboration with Hammond

[@masterskrain2630]

22:40... JAMES, there's been a bit of a problem with your car!

[@aspawi6742]

This is awesome , congrats, we need more

[@josephsearcy8930]

We are the ones we've been waiting for

[@richardbeaton7324]

Really loved this series !

[@SadisticSenpai61]

There's also the moisture in the air that's probably being absorbed by the wool ball, but that's probably negligible compared to the cloud itself.

[@timothyradi7421]

الحمد لله على السمع والأبصار والأفئده Alhamdulillah for sight, hearing and heart.

[@oliverwalker2674]

Impressed to see Richard flying a helicopter, nice one. Good documentary.

[@juanenriqueperezreyna8180]

Beautiful work Richard

[@zzach6146]

Awsome Awesome Awesome more please !!!!!

[@PeterIJmker]

19:26 amazing I did not now this.

[@zerg9523]

Wait a minute, thats weird… If rain is defined by puddles splashing and drizzle is defined by puddles not splashing… Then how do we quantify the difference? Larger slow moving drops may not splash much like smaller fast moving drops may splash… its seems like a very inconsistent definition…

[@Bob-hs2kh]

Any thing with Hammond in it I watch it 🤗

[@crazycarl00]

I see Richard Hammond, an honorary American, I click like.

[@jonathanjoestar6258]

Tonight: James kidnaps a cloud, Hammond pour water on a car, and I blows up a mountain.

[@JimmytheGenius]

i remember watching this video like 5 years ago

[@JimmytheGenius]

@@putoutmyfirewithgasoline1799 search bbc crushing a car with water. Get fuked.

[@jimmywanyama2118]

Mr. Hammond good Evening. I'm your Fan, Clouds are tiny water droplets and when they go to the Atmosphere they form clouds. And why do some places might have a huge water body/bodies yet receive less or no Rain. Especially in Some places right here in Kenya?

[@prakashambastha7530]

Very impressive and loved the way you explained natural phenomenon..love your all videos..