The trend for “one in a decade/century” weather events to happen more often than would be indicated by simple statistics is pretty worrying and it isn’t helped

The trend for “one in a decade/century” weather events to happen more often than would be indicated by simple statistics is pretty worrying and it isn’t helped that statistics being what they are, people looking to deny evidence can push back with arguments about the distribution of a random sample not being related to its overall average over time.