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Yeah, I was just going to mention that there were a couple, there's one interesting case from Australia that I just really wanted to quickly mention. Diane, Tropical Cyclone Diane, that was an interesting case for Australian friends. That may land fall as a category 2 tropical cyclone. What was interesting about this one is that there's a study currently ongoing right now to sort of figure out what was happening, but it seems like, so, the land mass in northern Australia was actually hot enough and they think that this may have happened with a couple other systems that have actually made it quite far into Australia. So Australia, as we all know, is relative to other places on the planet. Australia is actually very dry, just due to its geography and location. So, it was sort of unusual to have Diane make it as far in as it did as far as tropical systems go. What they suspect, so they're doing some modeling, I was reading a paper on this the other day, and basically what they think is that the system was slow moving, it was in a low shear environment, and there was enough rain coming out of it that it was hitting the continental land mass, which was hot, and I don't want to say boiling off, but there was enough evaporation occurring that while it was losing water obviously, right, it was raining itself out slowly, there was enough of a feedback loop still occurring from the hot land mass that it was able to actually keep reinvigorating itself or to sustain enough of the convection that it simply didn't fall apart immediately. So this was an interesting case because there was a fair bit of flooding from it. So, and there are a couple other systems they're looking at, so that was just something interesting that came to mind mentioning what kills these systems. So while it obviously lost, it wasn't a tropical cyclone in the classic sense, there was still enough of a thermal feedback loop going that it was able to decay far slower than it normally would have been expected to. So that's something interesting to take away. Okay Ken, we'll send it back to you, VA3VWX.