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Trump just made it much harder to track the nation’s worst weather disasters

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shuttered several climate-related programs Thursday .

The agency announced it would shuttering the "billion-dollar weather and climate disasters" database.

The database made it possible to track the costs of the nation's most devastating weather events.

The Central, South , and Southeast regions are most likely to be hurt most by the data loss.

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