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have discovered is that in years we have a lot of forest fires. I know people are going to say well in 2024 we had 120 tornadoes and in 2023 we had 80. Okay let me put this in context. In 2023 was the worst, 2024 was a bad fire year too, but 2023, I believe I have to double check this, but I believe volumetrically the smoke in 2023 was worse than it was in 2024. So what ended up happening was we climatologists when they looked over everything discovered that the smoke was so thick and heavy it actually lessened the intensity of thunderstorms which produced tornadoes. So overall it lessened the intensity of severe weather simply by limiting the amount of solar radiation that was making it to the surface and reducing the total energy that was available for the storms and therefore their intensity overall went down. So it's been bad for smoke this year, obviously not as bad as 2023 and it's hard for me to quantify how bad it is relative to 2024 again because it can be very local, but there has been a lot of smoke this year and we have seen that has limited the severity of storms and it's sort of changed their development pattern, in some cases precluded their development, so that might be playing into this overall lower number of tornadoes than what we would expect typically by this time of the year, so that's something to consider. I don't know if you want to replace tornadoes with forest fire smoke, those aren't good options either way, but that might be how one is offsetting the other. Okay, that's it for me for the weather this week. One more note, let me drop it.