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Victor Alpha 3, Victor Whiskey X3 returning. Yeah, so the, when we see polar stratospheric cooling that does, okay so there's something called the tropopause that separates the troposphere from the stratosphere. That's why I say there isn't a necessarily a direct immediate link. There's, the atmosphere is certainly linked at all levels right, but there are these sort of walls in between different parts of the atmosphere where we have inversions right. The mesosphere and the stratosphere and the troposphere are all separated by thermal inversions. They can influence each other. There isn't necessarily a direct immediate connection the way that you would have within one of the layers of the atmosphere, but what a strengthening polar vortex means is that you know cold air is dense and it contracts. So as the polar stratosphere cools what happens is the temperature difference between the pole and the mid latitudes is basically increases and this gradient strengthens the polar vortex and the polar vortex you can think of it sort of as a band of wind that's circling the pole. It's a bit of an oversimplification but that's that's sort of one way to look at it. So you can get locked in cold air and what happens is you have a strong cold polar vortex and that tends to trap cold air tightly over the Arctic or the Antarctic depending and what happens is if you have a let's say polar stratospheric warming event to be considered a positive effect event and what will happen is this will sort of help keep the cold air locked up at the pole and that might lead to a milder winter and a negative effect is usually associated with with cooling and what happens is that the vortex essentially becomes too strong and stable due to cooling and it can essentially it it basically it becomes so immense that the circulation loses its stability and it'll it'll wobble and in that wobbling the polar vortex can actually get displaced and if you have a bit of a blocking pattern we've all heard about let's say Omega blocks because they look like the Greek symbol Omega where you have a ridge two ridges in the low pressure system or vice versa. What will happen is this the polar vortex can get displaced and it can get trapped somewhere that it normally wouldn't be which which could be like over the prairies or northwestern Ontario or wherever right and as a result of that you know parts of wherever turn into Arctic tundra that normally aren't Arctic tundra okay and embellishing a bit but that's um that's that's that's that's one way to to look at it let me let me cycle it