<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Cristóbal Soto-Escobar — blog (English)</title><description>Hydrologist working on extreme precipitation and IDF curves in Chile. PhD student at UC Irvine.</description><link>https://cristobalsoto.com/</link><language>en</language><item><title>How extreme was the early-July storm in southern Chile?</title><link>https://cristobalsoto.com/blog/curvasidf2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cristobalsoto.com/blog/curvasidf2/</guid><description>We analyze the return period of the July 6–9 rainfall in southern Chile: how unusual the event was and what it means for infrastructure design.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New Publication: Developing IDF curves using sub-daily gridded and in situ datasets</title><link>https://cristobalsoto.com/blog/curvas_idf/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cristobalsoto.com/blog/curvas_idf/</guid><description>We address the critical challenge of estimating precipitation extremes in data-scarce regions in our latest article about Intensity, Duration and Frequency curves in Chile.</description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>