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Extreme weather’s true damage cost is often a mystery – that’s a problem for understanding storm risk, but it can be fixed

By John Nielsen-Gammon, Regents Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University
William Baule, Research Assistant Professor in Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University

Forecasters already patch together very rough estimates, and ending NOAA’s ‘billion-dollar disasters’ list means less access to insurance data. Texas’ state climatologists explain why that matters.

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