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VA3VWX4ID and by the way the El Nino doesn't just have an impact on North America. It has an impact on all other parts of the world. And what we're seeing is the strong El Nino is actually having an effect on something that we call the IOD. So that's the positive Indian Ocean Dipole. And that's basically, how can I explain it to you guys? It's an effective El Nino. But all you need to know is that what ends up happening from that is that Australia will typically see a lot of extreme temperatures as a result of it. And they actually saw this on November 11th, 10th and 11th. There was a low pressure system over Western Australia in the Gas-Goyne region. And this led to a number of thunderstorms and a huge complex that sort of persisted over 24 hours. So they had a record setting, 493.