Airdate: Forecast for Disaster: La Niña Strikes
A two part documentary from The Weather Channel will look at the science behind the the recent disasters, narrated by Bill Hunter.
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Readers will be familiar with a recent documentary on Free to Air, 2011: 100 Days of Disaster but now the Weather Channel will tackle the subject in Forecast for Disaster: La Niña Strikes.
The two-part documentary produced by The Weather Channel and Beyond Productions, it will be narrated by actor Bill Hunter, and features interviews with Anna Bligh, Mayor of Grantham Steve Jones, members of Queensland Emergency Services (EMQ), hydrologist and catchment representatives and the Weather Channel’s Senior Meteorologist Dick Whitaker.
It tells the story behind the unprecedented weather events, which left Australia’s landscape torn and its communities in disbelief following a prolonged period of drought.
In response to this dramatic change, Forecast for Disaster: La Niña Strikes examines the excessive rainfall, record flooding and destructive cyclone activity that occurred as the La Niña weather phenomena imposed itself on the Australian continent.
“Our role is to help Australians understand the science behind the weather that shapes our lives. Upon reflection, you see the optimism associated with the ending of the drought only to watch it all turn to despair as La Niña’s fury was unleashed. We see it as our responsibility to capture the weather events that shape Australia and have taken this opportunity to explain these weather events through this documentary,” says Julian Delany, General Manager of The Weather Channel.
With narration by veteran Australian actor Bill Hunter, the documentary features interviews with Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, Mayor of Grantham Steve Jones, members of Queensland Emergency Services (EMQ), along with hydrologist and catchment representatives.
The Weather Channel’s experts, including Senior Meteorologist Dick Whitaker, also provide insight and explanation into the severe weather events that became natural disasters.Ai
“The La Niña of 2010/2011 was one of the strongest in the last 100 years. In 2010, we saw what has become one of the great rainfall turnarounds in the recorded meteorological history of Australia. La Niña had arrived and was destined to strike. It has been a fascinating and often haunting experience analysing weather events such as the flash flooding in the Lockyer Valley and broadscale floods of Brisbane together with one of Australia’s most ferocious tropical cyclones; Yasi,” says Dick Whitaker, Senior Meteorologist at The Weather Channel.
Forecast for Disaster: La Niña Strikes reveals the science behind the calamity. Combining eyewitness accounts and numbing images of destruction through our own brand of insightful commentary, this is a clear explanation of the relentless weather events that tested Australia… and could do so again.
Forecast for Disaster: La Niña Strikes will air on Sunday May 15 at 6.30pm (AEST).
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To add to Craig’s comments if I had cable TV I would watch this documentry over the s**thouse presentation that was 100 Days of Disaster or How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Apocolypse (A Kubrick reference a day keeps… I don’t know, Tom Cruise away.)
It’s kind of sad that it takes the Weather Channel to produce a proper documentry on the events of the last 6 months. Hopefully the ABC will buy it and run it as a 4 Corners report later this year.
This sounds better than the crap TEN dished up.