Heavy rains continue to batter large parts of northern Portugal, exacerbating the country's struggles under a series of storms. Recent flooding has threatened the integrity of embankments surrounding the historic city of Coimbra, where part of the wall collapsed, prompting authorities to evacuate some 3,000 residents as a precaution.
Since late January, Portugal has been hit by a series of violent storms that have battered the central and southern regions of the country, tearing roofs off houses and leaving hundreds of thousands without power.
As these storms subsided this week, a meteorological phenomenon known as an "atmospheric river" emerged. This is a large corridor of concentrated water vapor that carries massive amounts of tropical moisture, causing torrential rains that were concentrated this time in the north, according to the Spanish newspaper La Razón.
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