but yes, that's what you would use as at least the determination after strong quote unquote el nino season. so what's all of this really mean? now, we heard about from the noah representative there, that back in 1997, early 80s, we had very strong el nino then, too, remember, looking bare here to 1997 values there is bright white, red coloring, indicating that's where you had some of the warmest sea surface temperatures around the equator, this is the projection, actually what's going on right now over the central pacific. how does that actually impact the weather? in a very strong way. it leads to very strong pacific jet stream, which can actually split to a southern and northern branch it, causes that jet stream to move off to the north, what you will ends up have happening here, is that you will likely get some very beneficial rainout toward the places that are affected with the drought. but it may come too soon, too fast, to the point that mudslides, landslides, all of that, become very real concern. how does it affect our region? because you have this split, you're generally talking a