However, coverage of extreme precipitation often implies that the last few years have entailed patterns of exceptional magnitude far surpassing anything we have seen before. In reality, we have seen about a 0.15-inch increase in the most extreme daily precipitation since the 1950s, and there has been little change since the 1990s. The signal-to-noise ratio is small enough such that e.g., 1941 was more extreme globally than 2023.