Claim: Nine years into that 11-year hurricane drought, a NASA scientist computed it as a 1-in-177-year event.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: A statewide drought began in November 2005, one month after Hurricane Wilma's passage through the state, and persisted until 2009.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: In a NASA report published in January 2013, Hansen and Sato noted "the 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slowdown in the growth rate of the net climate forcing."

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Following the state's fourth-worst drought in a century, the rains collected in rivers and streams, causing record flooding at 18 river gauges, and mostly affecting the Raritan, Passaic, and Delaware basins.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Drought is the unusual dryness of soil caused by levels of rainfall significantly below average over a prolonged period.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Between 2011 and 2014, California experienced the driest period in its recorded history and more than 100 million trees died in the drought, creating areas of dead, dry wood.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: While covering less area than the Dust Bowl, which covered 70 % of the United States, the drought of 1988 ranks as not only the costliest drought in United States history but also the costliest natural disaster in United States history before Hurricane Katrina.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: In the Gulf of Mexico, catastrophic hurricane strikes at given locations occur once about every 350 years in the last 3,800 years or about 0.48%-0.39% annual frequency at any given site, with a recurrence rate of 300 years or 0.33% annual probability at sites in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico; category 3 or more storms occur at a rate of 3.9 - 0.1 category 3 or more storms per century in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The term "1 in 10 year storm" describes a rainfall event which is rare and is only likely to occur once every 10 years, so it has a 10 percent likelihood any given year.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: A drought or drouth is an event of prolonged shortages in the water supply, whether atmospheric (below-average precipitation), surface water or ground water.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The term "1 in 100 year storm" describes a rainfall event which is extremely rare and which will occur with a likelihood of only once in a century, so has a 1 percent likelihood in any given year.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The term "1 in 10 year storm" describes a rainfall event which is unusual and has a 50% chance of occurring in any 10-year period.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Drought is a recurring feature of the climate in most parts of the world.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Well-known historical droughts include: