Meteorologists aren’t referring to the last time a storm of this magnitude happened when they say “100-year” or “1,000-year storm.” We VERIFY what the term means.
Source: wnep.com
No, a ‘1,000-year storm’ doesn’t mean it only happens once every 1,000 years
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