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Richard Woods is the Senior hazards adviser for the Civil Defence emergency management dept at Auckland Council.
In this Auckland Civi lDefence video Richard explains the two main ways thunderstorms form over Auckland.
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Guest on 17/08/2013 6:10am
Very interesting presentation.