Forecasts and warnings largely worked during the recent flooding catastrophe in Texas. Those systems are expected to degrade as President Donald Trump’s cuts to the National Weather Service, satellite

If you want an accurate flood forecast, you need to account for all these factors in one way or another. In traditional, physics-based flood forecasting, these factors are converted into complex mathematical equations and connected to form what is essentially a giant math problem. Solve that, and you have your forecast.

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As Trump visits flood victims in Texas, know that the National Weather Service may be a federal agency, but saving lives depends on local resources.

Texas forecasters issued a series of early-morning warnings about “life-threatening flooding” along the Guadalupe River.

The National Weather Service issued timely alerts, meteorologists say, but few were listening in the hours before the early-morning flash floods along the Guadalupe River