The article discusses how climate change has shifted the patterns of extreme weather events, leading to an increase in the frequency of phenomena traditionally categorized as 100, 500, or 1000-year storms. As meteorological conditions change, significant storms are happening more often than historical records suggest. The North Carolina coast and St. Louis suburbs, for instance, have seen multiple hundred-year floods in recent years, indicating that the impacts of climate change are redefining storm metrics and increasing weather volatility.
"As climate change leads to greater meteorological volatility, one in 100 or 500 or 1,000-year events are occurring twice or three times or more in those windows."
"A study by the carbon removal project Deep Sky calculates that the frequency of deadly hurricanes has jumped 300%, with 100-year storms now forecast to occur once every 25 years."
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