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And while we're on the topic of heat, I just want to keep going on this. BC, they were very, very hot on July 30th. Lydon got up to 40 degrees. Ashcroft and Kamloops, they got a 39.4 degrees. Pemberton, they were 38.9. Lillooet, 38.3. Warfield, 38.2, etc. Very hot, very dry heat. You get it in the interior valley. Lower elevations, you get some thermal compression with some downslope flows, right? And boom, you get these really hot, dry temperatures, hence the immense fire risk. So it's a very hot, very dry heat. BC wasn't the only place that was cooking, though. August 1st, Suihean, which is in the UAE, United Arab Emirates, they got up to 51.8 degrees Celsius just cooking. And that was a national record, which they broke their national record, which was 51.3 degrees. And that was set in Mezayar in 2017. And the temperature that they set, 51.8, that tied the highest temperature ever recorded in the United Arab Emirates. And that temperature was reached in Suihean in June 2021 and Mezayar in July 2017. And those are desert regions where that was hot. And it wasn't like that was the oddball. There were lots and lots of high 40s throughout the entire country. So that was just the hottest, 51.8. That is really hot.