Station:
ABC (AU)
Status:
Ended
Start:
2020-10-13
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With unique access to Australia's emergency services, first responders and local communities, and packed with information for communities on how to manage extreme weather events, Big Weather (And How to Survive It) is an emotionally gripping series filmed over one intense summer, and preparing us for more.Shot on the frontlines during Australia's Black Summer of 2019-20, this 3-part ABC factual series delivers an urgent and empowering message of how our weather is changing and what we can do to survive it.Big Weather presenter, Craig Reucassel charts the 2019-20 summer as oppressive heatwaves set temperature records that lead to Australia's worst fire season on record. Over this period more than 20 million hectares of forest went up in flames: a fifth of the continent's forest and an area twice the size of Belgium. Then in a cruel contradiction, catastrophic fire is followed by severe storms and flash floods.
TV Show Ended.
S1E1 - Summer is Coming
With unique access to Australia's emergency services, first responders and local communities, Craig Reucassel joins fire chiefs and emergency commissioners as they plan for an ominous summer ahead.
Air Date: 13 Oct 2020 04:30 (CDT)
S1E2 - Into the Firestorm
Australia experiences the largest peacetime evacuation in its history. Craig learns what's required to become a volunteer firefighter as he undertakes training before heading to the fire front in Gippsland, Victoria.
Air Date: 20 Oct 2020 04:30 (CDT)
S1E3 - Ready Together
After three years of brutal drought and the hottest summer on record, Craig finds himself facing floodwaters as two months of rain falls in just two days, Sydney's heaviest rainfall in 20 years. (Final)
Air Date: 27 Oct 2020 04:30 (CDT)