Matt Lanza

No, I've never wanted it to be like a destructive storm.

I was like, give me a Matthew that's a cat five in the middle of the ocean.

That's like the coolest storm you've ever had to look at.

And, you know, it hurts no one.

So, yeah, it was weird.

It was kind of like funny that like, okay, well, here we are.

Matthew's on the list and it's gone.

Retired.

All right, cool.

Well, it was a fun run.

Yeah, the weather balloon issue is a big wild card in all of this.

Because if we do lose some of this upper air data consistently, then it becomes a problem.

It does start to infect the modeling.

Modeling gets worse, things like that.

So hopefully, as we go through the rest of hurricane season, we're not missing too much of that data.

Some of the weather balloons have started to be launched again.

There's still some that aren't.

But I imagine if you've got a Category 3 hurricane sitting in the Caribbean, they're going to launch the balloons.

They'll find a way to do it.

At least in Matt's world, that's what makes sense.