“This is something that hasn’t happened in our modern era of observations” which is less than 150 years… Fake math! https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/08/31/harvey-is-a-1000-year-flood-event-unprecedented-in-scale/ …
yes, absolutely. But things like ‘peak rainfall event’ are hard to track, and the underlying system is changing
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Language of "1000 year storm" is less about timing and more about likelihood, and thus happening less than said allotted time means change
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yes, but smooth changes in one property may lead to abrupt changes in another. So all we can really say is ‘welp, model not valid’
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