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Okay, yeah, Kia ora. I don't have a statistic for it. I can't tell you what percentage would do it. But what I would say is that it's far less common for mature tropical systems to interact, to essentially collide with one another than it is for developing systems. So it would be more common for tropical depressions or newly formed tropical storms where there is a lot of instability in a local environment. So you could have two tropical storms form in close proximity. It's more common for those to interact. And the other thing, Ken, is because the dynamics of the atmosphere get more complicated, the lower, the closer you get to the surface of the Earth, everything becomes sort of mushy. And it's actually difficult for... Models can model it, but there's more uncertainty that gets dragged into the modeling at the lower levels, the mid and upper levels. The upper levels can handle the Fujiwara effect really well. But when you get into the lower levels, it gets really messy really quickly. And there's a lot of features that can develop that are at the limit or sort of below the resolution limit of computer models that specifically deal with tropical systems. So it becomes a bit of a big mess. Forecasters are always sort of scratching their head until the new center of the tropical system emerges and convection begins to develop around it. But again, so typically you'll get it with weaker systems than you will with... You're not going to have... It's possible, but it's incredibly unlikely that you're going to have two category five hurricanes smash into each other courtesy of the Fujiwara effect. It's very, very unlikely. Okay, that's it, Ken. I'll send it back to you, VA3VWX.