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very, very rare. So what happened? Well, on May 17th, the conditions were perfect for tornadoes. They had one near Krustamir, one near Didsbury, one near Olds, and then on the 18th of May, another one near Olds, one near Garfield, one near Gul Lake, and one near Blackfald. And these were all given a preliminary rating of EF0. So basically between May 17th and May 18th, the Northern Tornadoes Project and ECC, which is Environment Climate Change Canada, as they recorded these seven landspouts in the central and southern part of Alberta. And these were actually the province's first confirmed tornadoes of the year. So what's going on here? Why is this so interesting? Well, from a seasonal and climate perspective, Alberta's landspelt season.