we bring in meteorologist denise isaac. thank you so much for joining me, denise. it's a pleasure, scotty. pleasure to be here. and as you mentioned, yes, there drought conditions in the was something that's very common, especially over the past 10 years. well, not sitting, you're seeing from both. this isn't at anything abnormal from years past, but that being said, at the same time, you do have this idea of a tropical storm from the golf, having it a little early for it and are we? is it kind of interesting that we're already dealing with this drought so early in the summer season? what yeah. what's very unusual is a triple digit heat that has been impacting the western us. so early this year, usually it happens in july. and once you add the lack of rain, well that certainly doesn't help that allows the situation to worse then. and we, i do have to point out though that drought and he waves aren't the same thing, same thing, but they are related. so one that land really drives out with the lack of rain, it tends to warm up faster. so that's why we're seeing the t