English has good words for severity which is what they’re trying to impart.

There is a huge difference between "once per location per 100yr" and "once per 100yr".

Every year there is at least one hurricane Katrina equivalent storm in the world. Having one in New Orleans is once in hundreds of years. Anywhere on the gulf coast is once in, IDK, a dozen.

So you can pretty easily lie and mislead (accidentally or not the results are the same) by not being super careful about scope.

This is a well-known term, that categorizes the norm in a specific location. It would be useless to use it across locations.

Makes all the difference indeed.

No place nor patience for such nuance nor precise definitions in the news unfortunately.

>No place nor patience for such nuance nor precise definitions in the news unfortunately.

You might even say there's strong incentives in the opposite direction.