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There are over 2000 watersheds in the US. It would be unusual if we didn’t see around 20 100-year floods every year.
by sokoloff 1y ago
There are over 2000 watersheds in the US. It would be unusual if we didn’t see around 20 100-year floods every year.
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoExtreme precipitation events are also getting more common.
- tbrownaw 1y agoI would think they'd be correlated enough to mess up the numbers a little.
- vikingerik 1y agoRight. It's the multiple-endpoints principle. The extreme events feel overly frequent because we cherry-pick and only notice them. We never notice the other 99/100 of places that don't have a hundred-year flood in a year.