Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀So weird to see the news continue to refer to both Helene and Milton as "once-in-a-century" hurricanes.
If you have back-to-back "once-in-a-century" events, maybe it's time to abandon the pretense that they're once-in-a-century.
Louis Ingenthron@bascule The context matters. Helene was a once-in-a-century hurricane for the southeastern states; Milton is once-in-a-century for central Florida. Neither of those regions had been hit this hard by a hurricane for over ten years, so it checks out.
Ariaflame@ariaflame @bascule Whoops, you're right, in my mind I was reading "decade".
arjankroonen@louis haha, I thought you were being sarcastic 😄
Tamandua@bascule as someone said here recently “I’m old enough to remember when we had once a century events only every 20 years”
Horror Author Reed AlexanderIt's like wrestling. "OH MY GOD, WE HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH A DEVISTATING MOVE AND BETRAIL IN WRESTLING HISTORY!!!"
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️@bascule
Statistically possible as an outlier but we know that is not the case. There is a reason for this. It's not just a statistical aberration.
Statistically possible as an outlier but we know that is not the case. There is a reason for this. It's not just a statistical aberration.
David 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️NB they/them@bascule They should be saying something like "catastrophic hurricane brought on by climate change." These massive weather events should be linked to climate change in every single conversation. Framing them in a standard that no longer exists isn’t helpful.
@SailorDisco yup, exactly
VHG 🇪🇺🇺🇦@bascule once-in-a-century- until next month, or may be just week
FElon&Felon47🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇹🇼
DopeGhoti@bascule Well you see, NOAA has quietly committed to only using those names once every 100 years. If NOAA is still around in 2124.
sabik
notsoloud@bascule
A German on here (who?) recently posted something which translated to US conditions goes:
H̶u̶r̶r̶i̶c̶a̶n̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶e̶n̶t̶u̶r̶y̶
The century of hurricanes