Sen. Maria Cantwell, a Democrat from Washington state, penned a letter to President Trump with five recommendations for improving the nation's weather forecasting infrastructure.

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.

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