Season 1 Plot
This series takes viewers onto the front line of the shocking new weather phenomena that, thanks to climate change, are changing the world around us faster than we can keep up: terrifying elemental events with names like Dry Lightning, Thundersnow, Polar Vortexes, Firenadoes, Ice Waves and Atmospheric Rivers. Mutant Weather tells the stories of these mutations, from gestation and birth to their cataclysmic impact and how they will evolve next, using spectacular video footage, first-hand testimonies from those who’ve experienced them, expert scientific analysis, stunning graphics and dramatic recreations.
Mutant Weather Season 1 aired on April 2nd, 2019.
Season 1 Episodes
1. Inferno
Extreme winds and related wind phenomena are making wild fires bigger and more destructive every year
2. Megastorms
Global warming is causing climate change. With warmer oceans, storms are getting bigger and more destructive than ever before.
3. Cold (Freeze)
The polar vortex and jet stream is responsible for much of the earths weather. As global warming makes it sluggish, it tends to modify earth wide weather patterns in unpredictable ways, resulting in mutant weather phenomena.
4. Melt
Disappearing glaciers, shrinking sea ice, and thawing permafrost is increasing from year to year. This is threatening the planet with loss of drinking water and rising sea levels.
5. Earth
Climate change has many effects. Increased rainfall is causing bigger and more destructive flooding, landslides and sink hole events
6. Sky (Thunderstorms)
Smoke, chemical pollution and industrial gasses are all adding to the changing of the atmosphere - our sky. As more and more is produced, it is modifying the global weather patterns for the worse.
7. Tornadoes (Wind)
Most weather phenomena like tornado's and hurricanes rely on temperature differentials to grow in size. As the planet's temperature rises, the warmer surface layer of our oceans is providing the fuel for larger and more destructive storms.
8. Floods
Floods used to be rare but are now becoming the norm. More extreme weather causes higher rainfalls, and permanent flooding is swallowing up low lying areas across the globe resulting in the phenomenon of Weather Refugees.
9. Heat
Rising heat contributes to more violent weather phenomena, but also places additional stresses on the infrastructure of our daily lives. Electricity grids fail under air conditioner loads, water supplies fail and flora and fauna die.
10. Air
Our industrialized economies are affecting our world more and more. Every day we are changing the composition of the very air around us, thanks to emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and many other gases, which drives ever larger storms.
