Customer Reviews

The Weather

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I'm a science teacher in California and have previewed in detail this work. For myself, I found the way Donal Macintyre organized the themes was ingeneous and caused the whole concept of weather to come alive to the point of being able to feel it and experience it in a powerful way. The fast pace, background music, true stories and historical background had a tendency to cause me personally to retain the details in vivid recollection

I'll be using this in my classes starting next week.

April 18th 2005: Well, the jury is back and the news is favorable. The video series was able to hold the attention of active Freshman in high school. Congratulations to Donal and his production crew.

This video is great for middle school and high school earth science teachers. I have used it in the classroom with very positive results.

This DVD is well organized into four sections:Wind,Wet,Cold, and Heat.

Wind; Covers twisters, Hurricanes , and jet streams
Wet; Covers Storms,flash floods, monsoons
Cold; ice storms etc..
Heat; deserts etc..

As a tutorial on weather, this DVD is great, but it didn't have any shocking footages such as giant waves crashing over piers or roofs flying off by the power of a hurricane. I found World Almanacs-Extreme Weather more interesting.

Donal MacIntyre is at his best as host of The Weather . This is one of the best DVDs I own. If you like National Geographic's "Nature Fury" you will like this one. It has good graphic's and is very fun to watch. I learned a lot about the weather from it. A great family video to watch with your older children.

This was an entertaining four hour series about the weather. It covers wind, wet (water), cold, and heat. Kinda like the Crocodile Hunter meets the weather. It is pretty good and doesn't have the "typical" BBC flavor that I expected. Especially good at grabbing the attention of kids as they learn. Fun for adults, too.

I enjoyed watching this DVD but I had to run for other sources to satisfy my curiousity .Great to watch but don't expect it to answer all your weather questions.

I loved this movie too. Showed it to my science class. This was NOT made in 1975! It is very recent.

Not a great video about weather or anything else but a good source of reference on the narrator namely Donlad McIntyre. You would be basically watching this chap's adventure exploring weather phenomena and the disasters it can cause. There are two discs on different weather patterns but I had enough of McIntyre at the end of the first one and do not feel like watching the second one.

When I went to look for a copy of this movie, I didn't realize it was older. The information is basic about the dangers of the weather. It is very informative.

Excellent video for reference in high school science when studying uneven heating of planet and related weather.