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And they broke their all-time record. They got up to 41.2 degrees Celsius in Keshiwara, which is Tamba City, and in Hoyogo Prefecture. And the previous record there was 41.1 degrees Celsius, and that was set in 2018 and again in 2020. So they broke it by a tenth of a degree, getting up to 41.2 degrees today. And I believe that area is susceptible to downslope flows from the higher elevation terrain. That helps edge temperatures up. Still very, very hot nonetheless. Okay, and just while we're on the topic of heat, Ontario and eastern Canada have some very high humidity with human X values that were north of 42 degrees Celsius. This is back in the final week of July. The winds there, they got up to 45 with the heat index, so it was 34.5 degrees Celsius with a dew point of like 25, and it was making it feel like 45 Celsius. Hamilton 44, Sarnia 45, Toronto 43, Ottawa 43, a lot of places there across Ontario, southern Ontario, just absolutely. It was oppressive heat, high humidity. And what ends up happening is it can get... You get transpiration in addition to advection of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. So by the time the air gets here, it's like ultra saturated because it's not just human Gulf of Mexico air, but it's picking up moisture along the way from all the vegetation across the... Across the Appalachian, the Ohio Valley and whatever else. And then it gets in here and it's totally saturated. So it's very hot, oppressive heat, far hotter than... I said to some friends, I go, man, this is way more human than it is in some of the tropical regions at this time of the year. Like down in the islands, it was more human than anything they get. Okay, let me drop it. And I know there's a delay. My heat index here hit 111 once or twice, Kp3, JQQ.