Across the UK, across Continental North America, at around the world, on the internet, by webcast, and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes, and this is the unexplained.

A special rush edition of this show, I felt I had to do something when I listened intensively to the coverage of Hurricane Sandy coming out of New York City and the Tri-State area, and watching television pictures coming out of there too.

This story as a journalist, and you know that I'm not working on radio in London right now, so as a journalist, you never stop being that it peaked my interest, and of course I have many connections in America, and America has been a big part of my life.

So, precariously, this side of the Atlantic, I felt this whole thing, and I couldn't sleep that first night for listening to coverage on radio stations like 10-10 wins,

the big powerhouse rolling news station in New York, to see the impact of Hurricane Sandy, and one interesting thing happened, and you will know this by now, especially if you're in America, and particularly if you're in the Tri-State area around New York.

The forecasts of what would happen were absolutely correct. Now, quite a number of people made the assumption that I wasn't going to be as bad, it would be like Irene, and we all stay put.

And look what happened to some of those people, so we're entering a new phase here, and that's why, on this special edition of The Unexplained, I'm going to talk to Katherine Heyho.

She is a leading climate research person at Texas Tech University, recently featured in a big edition of the documentary series here in the UK called Horizon.

Now, I loved her views on climate, and wanted to get her on this show, and I called her people yesterday, and was able to organize this for today as I record this.

So, what? Nearly 48 hours from the impact of Hurricane Sandy, that's when we're doing this recording.

We're going to talk to Katherine Heyho in just a moment. Thank you, as ever, to Adam Cornwell, for his fantastic work on the website.

Adam, from Creative Hotspot in Liverpool. Thank you very, very much for your fabulous emails that still come in.

And for the support that you're giving me through has not been a great year for me 2012, with my hearing problem and all the rest of it, but I want to get back on track.

And you've had some really nice things to say, there was a very nice email, and I will do some of your emails in a future edition.

I'll go through some of them, but there was a very nice email I had from one person, who made a suggestion a few of you have suggested, and that suggestion was, why aren't you on American radio?

And if you tell us where you'd like to go, we will bombard that organization with requests to get you on.

What a lovely thing to say. Thank you so much. That would be a dream for me one way or another.

And I love American radio, and my inspirations have always been the great American broadcasters of our time.

You know, when my colleagues were copying people from the BBC, my heroes were Dan Rather, and Art Bell, and Cronkite in the past.

So that's where I stand. Hence my interest in Hurricane Sandy, and what it did, and clearly it left its wake a huge toll of devastation, and was a climate event and a weather event

that we won't be able to forget in a hurry. So we'll talk to Catherine Hayho in just a moment.

What I'm going to do first, though, is just say this, if you want to send me some feedback about the show, if you want to send me some guest suggestions, I always work on those, and I'm glad to see them.

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