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So because tropical systems need instability and subsiding sinking air creates stability, it's the opposite of what a hurricane would want or a tropical cyclone would want. Even thunderstorms don't want that, right? They want instability. So they want either neutrality in the atmosphere or buoyancy that allows air parcels to continue to rise, right? So essentially a lapse rate that's unstable. Or it allows for surface parcels, so blobs of air from the surface to reach the lifting condensation level where they then cool at 6.5 degrees Celsius per kilometer and keep rising because the rate of change is greater than that, right? So the air is always warmer. So the blob of warm air is always warmer than the surrounding environment. Okay, so because you have the subsiding air, you don't typically have tropical systems near other tropical systems. But sometimes as we're seeing right now in the Atlantic and as what we saw earlier in the Pacific with those two storms that I mentioned earlier. So we saw Bouloy and oh my goodness, the Ragasa, they weren't too far apart. They were too far apart to have the Fujiwara effect come into play. But again, they weren't that far apart. But what we're seeing right now with the Atlantic where you essentially have Humberto and our next system developing, they're going to be in close proximity to each other at roughly not at the same time but in a compacted timeframe. So the concern is are they going to sort of get intertwined and become one system? Well, it's a possibility but tropical systems, because they ventilate themselves a lot, they actually sometimes tend to force themselves apart. Let me drop it.