A new study led by Ehud Bartfeld and Dr. Assaf Hochman of the Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences reveals that the most intense and destructive rainstorms in Portugal are not the most chaotic, but actually the most predictable. These events are generated within large, well-organized atmospheric systems, which make winds stronger and efficiently channel moisture, thus producing much greater quantities of rainfall, while creating clearer and more consistent signals in the atmosphere. The study was published in Weather and Climate Extremes.

Rivers in the sky are driving stronger and more predictable floods, new study finds