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Yeah, Victor Alpha 3, Victor Whiskey X-ray returning. Yeah, Scott, that's actually a great point. They do. So supercellular thunderstorms, which are the parent thunderstorms to the tornadoes, so their mesocyclones spin the opposite direction. So up in the northern hemisphere, low pressure systems, whether they're hurricanes, extra tropical cyclones, nor'easters, all that kind of stuff, they all spin counterclockwise, right? And that's because the Coriolis effect basically wants to, if you're moving with the motion of the Earth and you're in the northern hemisphere, everything wants to pull left. If you're in the southern hemisphere, everything wants to pull right. So if you're at the equator, that's where the split occurs. Northern hemisphere, you have a left kick. Southern hemisphere, a right kick. And that gives you your rotation direction. So that's basically what's going on. So in the southern hemisphere, yes, they spin the opposite direction and the storms are actually sort of flipped backwards. So for us in the northern hemisphere, the hook echo on a supercell thunderstorm and that sort of flying eagle, that v-shape, that'll all be flipped, that it'll be a mirrored image of itself going backwards. So that's what's interesting with the southern hemisphere. And it's unique because because interestingly enough in the upper levels of the atmosphere you still have westerlies in both hemispheres, it's just the lower level winds that become reversed. So for tornadoes in the southern hemispheres, so typically you're looking for a southeast flow in the northern hemisphere, in the southern hemisphere it's actually the opposite. So you're actually getting a southwest flow, that's your tornadic flow. So it's interesting because it flips everything backwards or part of me you're looking at a southeast flow in the northern hemisphere and in the southern hemisphere you're you're looking at either a southwest or a northwest flow to give you tornadoes so it's very interesting