Warm air hold more moisture, so when it meets cooler air, the result is more and stronger floods.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/04/world/asia/india-flooding-deaths/index.html?hpt=hp_bn2
By Vanessa Ko, Harmeet Singh and Sara Sidner, CNN
updated 10:15 AM EDT, Wed July 4, 2012
Flooding described by India's prime minister as the worst in recent times, has left at least 95 people dead and almost 2 million others homeless in the country's remote Assam state.
The Brahmaputra river overflowed during monsoon rains over the past week, flooding more than 2,000 villages and destroying homes in the northeast of the country, officials said.
Most of the dead were swept away by the fast-flowing water, while 16 were reported to have been buried by landslides caused by the heavy rains.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told journalists Monday that almost half a million people were living in relief camps, and the remaining of the displaced were staying with relatives or living in the open, using tarpaulin sheets for shelter.
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