With temperatures rising and more water vapor in the air, such storms can pull in more moisture and thus rain or snow more heavily than storms of old.

随着气温升高，空气中的水蒸气增多，这样的风暴会吸收更多的湿气，因此雨雪会比以前的风暴来得更猛烈。

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As a result, storms that form over the Pacific deliver heavier water to California than to Utah.

结果，在太平洋上空形成的风暴将更多的水气输送到加利福尼亚州，而不是犹他州。

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Storms and floods in its main potato growing region last year caused the worst harvest in more than 3 decades.

去年，发生在其主要马铃薯种植区的暴风雨和洪水致使收成创30多年新低。

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And in the Philippines, more than two hundred thousand people are still living in shelters after severe storms last year.

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But the storms that buried the American capital last month broke more than seasonal records.

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But the recent storms that buried the city broke more than seasonal records.

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Sandy affected a broader geographic area than most storms, hitting a bigger population and a range of industries from manufacturing and finance to retail and shipping.

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New Zealand's high commissioner in Apia, Nick Hurley, said the cyclone was bigger than other tropical storms he had experienced in the region, and its strength was unexpected.

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They then modeled a solar storm with the intensity of the Carrington Solar Storm, which took place in 1859 and is estimated to have been about four times stronger than the Halloween storms.

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