moisture. we think parts of houston will be seeing significant rainfall beginning as early as tonight when the system makes landfall and continuing through much of the middle portion of the week as the system hugs the coast and ends up potentially around areas of louisiana. notice this orange contours and red contours. those are 4 to 8 inches of rainfall in an area that, of course, is still an active recovery mode from what happened with hurricane ida in recent weeks. so the last thing you want to see. houston looks to be one of the wetter spots where three consecutive spots of moderate to heavy rainfall in place. temperatures gradually climb up as we reduce the possibility of the persistent rainfall and go into the summer time regime where thunderstorms will be scattered about. at that point, temps closing in on 90 degrees which is where they belong this time of year. and the other element with the tropical storm in the gulf of mexico, of course, we saw it with ida as it moved over th
also off the coast of eastern united states and the gulf of mexico. those red contours is indicative of sea levels rising 15 centimeters. that s the length your hair grows in an entire year. that s how much our ocean have risen off the east coast in the last five years. it s resulted in deadly heat wave, increased tropical storm activity. since 2017 or in 2017, hurricane maria, that particular storm took with it 2,000 lives in puerto rico. 2015 through 2017 on a planetary scale, 9,000 people lost their lives. you see hurricanes harvey and the wildfires. harvey was the single costliest national fire in u.s. history tied with hurricane katrina, $1.25 billion in losses with that storm alone. an incredible five years when you look at the climate setup. it most certainly has.