"Weatherlawyer" wrote in message
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Weatherlawyer wrote:
Henry Spencer wrote:

There were two "once in a hundred years" storms in the North Sea in
the
1980s... within three months of each other in 1987.

There were?

Where?

For future reference Spencer has seen the error of his ways and
realised that certain regions of the UK have ""once in a hundred years"
storms" quite often.

No facts to go by off-hand but I'd guess these ""once in a hundred
years" storms" occur in the UK with the sort of regularity one would
expect from visitors who arrive every couple of months, i.e. about half
a dozen times a year.

Now had he said that those in sheltered climes were rare he might have
been let off lightly.

Sorry Spencer olde chappe. BLNT.

Statistically, this is nonsense. If certain storms are considered to be
100 year storms, they certainly are not going to recurr every 'couple of
months'. If they did, they wouldn't be 100 year storms.