Synopsis
Richard Hammond demonstrates the weather conditions that produce thunder and lightning.
- Programme: Wild Weather with Richard Hammond
- Episode: Temperature - The Driving Force
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2014
- Geography | Natural hazards | Tropical storms | Formation of a tropical storm
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