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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Food security and fortunes depend on sufficient rain, and nowhere more so than in Africa, where 96% of farmland depends on rain instead of the irrigation common in more developed places.

粮食的安全和命运依赖于充足的雨水，在非洲尤其如此。在那里，96%的农田依赖于降雨，而不是较发达地区常见的灌溉。

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This higher rate seems to make wet regions more sodden, and arid ones drier. It brings longer droughts between more intense periods of rain.

这样会使潮湿地区更加沥涝，乾燥地区更加枯旱，容易造成豪雨成灾和久旱不雨的极端现象轮番上阵。

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More than thirty centimeters of rain fell on May first and second.

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Byrs says this is extremely worrying as more rain and more flooding is sure to occur.

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"Joy is unconfined" announced the former Labour leader as he looked forward to next season's top-flight meeting of Cardiff and Swansea City - "a bit like El Clasico but with more rain and lots more passion".

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Data suggests Eskdalemuir in Dumfries and Galloway had 249mm of rain and 68.6 hours of sunshine - more rain and less sun than it had in the past 10 years.

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They've seen plenty of action in and around the arctic, melting ice, more rain and disappearing glaciers.

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