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they're about 40% under their normal July rainfall. And it's interesting because we should not be in a drought period at this point in time based on the annual cycles. This should have been sort of a neutral to wetter year but it's actually turned out to be much drier than anticipated so that's not good at all. And this leads into the next thing I was going to discuss which is severe weather in the form of tornadoes. So usually by this point in time we have somewhere around 50 to 60 tornadoes throughout the country. This year we only have 39 tornadoes which is unusually low. To put that in context, in 2024 there were 129 reported tornadoes, in 2023 there were 90, in 2022 there were 131, in 2021 there were 127, in 2020 there were 110, in 2019 there were 80, in 2018 105, and in 2017 71. So all things considered, we should have had about, by this point in time we should have had around 50 tornadoes, 50 to 60 tornadoes, so we're only at 39. I thought that we would see that pick up but so far it hasn't really budged. Now there is some active severe thunderstorms developing across the Canadian prairies as we speak but I don't know if those will produce tornadoes, not that I want them to, I'm just saying I don't know if they will produce tornadoes. Unusually low count for this late in the season for the country. There might be a reason for this, let me cycle it.