NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a release: NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a release: "The combination of the moon's gravitational pull, rising sea levels and climate change will continue to exacerbate coastal flooding on our coastlines and across the world." (Credit: Steve Heap/Shutterstock.com)

In recent years, cities along the U.S. coastline saw record-breaking high tide flooding, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). During 2019, the southeast saw a threefold increase in flooding days. In the western Gulf Coast, the increase was greater than fivefold.

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