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Screen shot of the map interface of the Extreme Precipitation in a Changing Climate project. Green dots show increases in the frequency and magnitude of a 100-year,1-day rainfall extreme (a 1-day rainfall total so large that it occurs on average only once every 100 years). At a station in Albany, NY, a 1-day rainfall event that in 2008 would have occurred only once in a hundred years on average now has an average recurrence interval of 65 years.