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'Apocalyptic Storm' Hits Sardinia

Half a year’s worth of rain fell in an hour and a half Monday night in the Italian island of Sardinia, flooding streets and killing at least 16 people.

2,500 people have been displaced by the storm and more than 10,000 have lost electricity.

Climate change has been linked to extreme precipitation events — periods of short, intense rainfall that can cause major damage...

As air heats up, it’s able to hold more and more water vapor — in general, every degree C of warming causes an atmospheric water vapor increase of 7 percent. Since warm air holds more water vapor, it takes longer for the water to condense and fall to the earth as rain — and when it does, there’s more of it available to fall.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/11/20/2972831/sardinia-flooding/