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mia

(8,360 posts)
Tue Jul 18, 2017, 11:25 AM Jul 2017

Tropical Storm Don weakening on approach to Windward Islands, forecast to degenerate

Tropical storm Don, which formed late Monday, weakened Tuesday morning and is barely hanging on as a tropical storm. It is forecast to blow through the Windward Islands late Tuesday, unleashing a blitz of gusty winds and heavy rain. By Wednesday or Thursday, forecasters call for its swift demise....

Don’s health is not particularly good. The National Hurricane Center said in its 11 a.m. discussion that it had become “less defined” and that it may lack the requisite circulation to be considered a tropical storm....

Once Don crosses these islands and enters the Caribbean, it is not expected to survive for long. Hostile wind shear is expected to shred apart its vulnerable core....

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Orange Julius
9:03 AM EDT
Storm Don:
Deeply disturbed mass of superheated air, energized by coal and rubles, has the potential to obliterate infrastructure, health care, constitutional rights and the financial system. The storms track is uncertain with some probability it will dissipate in 2018, storm Don likely to be followed by constitutional depression Mike, which will be accompanied by companion hurricane Karen, unless it is verified that no women are in the track of depression Mike. If Don is able to become fully entrenched, the damage will be widespread and take years to undo.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/07/17/disturbed-weather-in-atlantic-grows-into-tropical-storm-don-but-has-bleak-future/?utm_term=.a12e62713677#comments

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Tropical Storm Don weakening on approach to Windward Islands, forecast to degenerate (Original Post) mia Jul 2017 OP
degenerate sounds about right. n/t dixiegrrrrl Jul 2017 #1
Low energy. yellowcanine Jul 2017 #2
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