About the author Andy Pitman is director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, UNSW.
What is a 1 in 100 year weather event? And why do they keep happening so often? Wednesday March 24, 2021 By Andy Pitman, Anna Ukkola and Seth Westra Editors' Picks It does not mean the event will occur exactly once every 100 years, or that it will not happen again for another 100 years.