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Southern Europe, they've been getting some very, very hot weather which has been exacerbating wildfires. Real quickly before I go into the temperatures here, so throughout Europe they've had about 440,000 hectares that have burned, so that's within the area, within the Eurozone, spread across Spain, Portugal and Greece and all those places, Spain, Portugal and Greece are currently having wildfires that are actively being fought at this point in time. And the heat that they've been having has been breaking records. There's been a number of places in France and Spain that have broken through 40 degrees Celsius as well as Portugal, so it's set some new temperature records there as far as that goes, so very, very hot. And China's also in the midst of a huge heat wave and they've actually, I was reading an article and in China they've had temperatures getting up to 41, 42 degrees Celsius and they've called it a, what is it, oh my goodness, it was on the tip of my tongue, they called it an industry cool down, they called it an industry cool down and what they were trying to refer to was that it was so hot people went nuts buying air conditioners, so it was an industry cool down because people were going out and buying all these air conditioners to cool everything down. So that got me. I guess it translates in, I don't know if it's Mandarin or Cantonese, but obviously the direct translation sounds better than an industry cool down does in English. But yeah, that's what they were saying. Let me drop it. This is repeater station kilo kilo 7, November Quebec November, all star node 6222, located in the north. So the Canadian drought monitor, that's updated regularly. As of the end of July 71% of the country was classified as abnormally dry or moderately to extremely dry. So that 71% includes most of Canada's agricultural landscape. So it's been very, very dry across huge chunks, obviously varies by region. BC, they basically had a moderate to extreme drought condition that was affecting 91% of their agricultural landscape and about 76% of the province. And the prairies, they weren't faring much better. It was so dry that they were expecting a crop reduction this year, somewhere on the order of 20 to potentially 40% depending on who's located where. And that of course includes Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba just because it's been so dry in a lot of places. Now there have been thunderstorms recently rolling through which have helped, but it has been dry so it's been strenuous on the crops. And of course, like I mentioned before, Ontario and Quebec very hot, very dry. The Ontario's only had about 60, sorry, we've only had about 40% of the normal monthly precipitation, which you see by this point in time. So we're under average by 60%. So that's not good at all. Let me drop it.