Twenty centimeters of precipitation fell in one day on a southern city in the 100-years climatic records for this city. This rainfall event ranked fifth among all one day precipitation events for this city. The return period for this extreme rainfall event would be
A) 4 years.
B) 5 years.
C) 20 years.
D) 100 years.
C) 20 years.
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