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Maria Cantwell: “If the cost of each storm is in the billions of dollars…”

Featuring: Maria Cantwell, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Washington

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Full Interview: Sen. Maria Cantwell makes plea to Trump about modernizing weather systems

Published | Video Starts at 14:15

If a radar system can't really analyze all those particles correctly, can't give you that forecast, can't allow you to create a model that then gives you some level of predictability, it's really just giving us limited information. Helpful, but limited. And If the cost of each storm is in the billions of dollars, isn't making that kind of investment to get us the better forecasting going to save every storm? So every storm could be $2 billion cheaper just because you had this investment telling you what the likelihood of impact was going to be and what to do to plan for it? (14:15–14:28)

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Asserts that better forecasting investments could reduce storm costs by billions.

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