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Weather forecasters sometimes warn of storms that unleash such unusual rain they are described as 100-year or even 500-year floods. Here’s what to know about how scientists determine how extreme ...

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This Is What Forecasters Mean When They Talk About a 100-Year Flood Weather forecasters sometimes warn of storms that unleash such unusual rain they are described as 100-year or even 500-year floods.

A few days later, Evie made her first entry. “Grandmas were at our place,” the 10-year-old began in cursive. The date was January 1, 1936. Nearly 90 years later, Evie is still writing.

A 500-year flood means such an event has a 1 in 500 chance, or 0.2%, of occurring in a year. Another concept scientists use is how frequently an event of a certain intensity is expected.