Killer Storms and Cruel Winters: The History of Extreme Weather

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Killer Storms and Cruel Winters - The History of Extreme Weather

Lucie Green

Tom Cholmondeley

Michael Poole

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Lucie Green looks back through Britain's most turbulent and dramatic weather history.

Lucie Green looks back through Britain's most dramatic weather history and sees how our reactions helped forge a weather science that today allows us to predict the worst extremes.

If you think Britain has recently been on the end of some of the worst floods and storms ever experienced, think again. So says solar scientist Dr Lucie Green, as she takes a journey back through our most turbulent and dramatic weather history. 

She finds an 18th-century storm surge that killed over a thousand people working in open Somerset fields, a hurricane that drowned a fifth of the British Navy and winters so bitter that the country came close to total shutdown. But she also explores how our reactions to killer storms and cruel winters helped forge a weather science that today allows us to predict - and protect ourselves from - the worst extremes.

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