Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Down in the replies: The California record for rainfall was 25.83 inches in 24 hours, Jan 23-4 1943, at Hoegee's Camp in the San Gabriel Mountains, LA County, 1.8 miles SE of Mt. Wilson and two miles north of Sierra Madre. I'd say that all by itself it blows the "1,000 year storm" talk away.

 

Ay yi yi.

Was there 12 inches in 24 hours in So Cal this week?

 

With all due respect @Neutral Corner , you are annoying as hell with your everloving tweets.

You keep posting the tweets of a guy who is talking about rainfall in "Bel Air County".

Good gravy.

 

When I post a tweet from down in the thread, it automatically pulls the initial post of the thread. I didn't post it twice, that's just how it works unless I copy/paste instead of linking it. The second one specified LA County.

 

OnlyFans?

 

Sounds like it.

 

"But not in a row..."

 

"1,000-year" anything is all nonsense unless we have some measurements by Arzachel (1029-1100) to use as a point of reference.

 

That's not what a 1,000-year event means when talking to meteorologists. It's just their way of saying a 1-in-1,000 chance of happening.

 

Then they they need to say it differently.

It rains 152 days a year in Seattle.

A "1 in 1,000" rain event happens every 6.5 years.

 

Thank God. We can all move on with our lives.

 

I'll defer to the experts on how they want to categorize it. And it's not that difficult to understand - if people try.

My town was hit with a 500-year flood in 2019 - which means a flood of that size or greater has a 0.2-percent chance of occurring in a given year. It doesn't mean we don't have to worry about another flood that size until after 2519.