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Re:South America is living one of the climate extreme events by Timon3 on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @11:21AM (#36972124)
I'll ignore your 20-years-point, the other commenters have that covered. But:

> Not surprisingly as we increase the number of records we keep, we increase the number we break.

No, it's the other way around. The more records we keep, the fewer maxima we should get.

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Re:South America is living one of the climate extreme events by hattmall on Saturday August 05, 2023 @03:25PM (#37015479)
The longer we keep records the fewer maxima, but as we add more individual records we will break more. These weather stations are in remote regions where recording began 20 years ago.
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