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Wind (1/4)


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Subjects: Climate Change, Nature, Ocean, Science

Grade Level: JrH-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No
Running Time: 50 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No

Copyright Date: 2002
Available in French: No

This programme explores the journey the winds take from their birth at the Equator to the North Pole, where we witness arguably the most beautiful vision on earth, a space rainbow, better known as aurora borealis. Along the way we tell of the devastating events that were unleashed by Hurricane Andrew in the USA and recall how the fastest wind on earth, the jet stream, was put to deadly use by the Japanese in World War II. There is also a look at how the wind can turn from the cooling breeze of a summer day to a devastating tornado, and how a wind from space can literally flatten the planet.