ABSTRACT
This chapter explores that there are important distinctions to be made between CCTV footage, home video, and mobile phone camera imagery. Concentrating on television documentaries and broadcast news coverage of weather events in Britain and the United States over the last decade, the chapter provides some of the frameworks from surveillance and media studies to identify a number of avenues through which CCTV appears in coverage of extreme weather. The emphasis of media representations of extreme weather is oriented around the relations of surveillance and contemporary visual culture. The chapter suggests that the visual culture of surveillance and monitoring is driving the critical discourse of many of the most recent media representations of extreme weather on TV. While both introduces the photographically/electronically contrived image but the catastrophic power of destruction of extreme weather may arrest or divert the eye, the latter has provided the most complex uses of surveillance imagery in the emergent visual culture of extreme weather.
