Well, that's the thing.  It would be interesting to look back at 1915 and see if it was an anomaly.  What we're seeing now is 10 years in a row with 8 of them setting records (not speaking of this particular event).
Mainly, it's worth noting that breaking a record is an "event" (weather) but yeah, if you keep breaking records year after year, at some point you're talking about "climate".
People mix them up and it makes their thinking cloudy, with some precipitation.