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

[jpak]

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=.92d5d18697fc

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.

Positioned about 150 miles southeast of Barbados, Don is a minimal tropical storm, with peak wind speeds of 40 mph. Little change in strength is predicted Tuesday as it approaches Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, where tropical storm warnings are in place.

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 qualification to be considered a tropical storm: a closed center of circulation.

The storm is moving fast, toward the west at 20 mph. Arrival in the Windward Islands – the chain of islands at the intersection of the tropical Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean (along the southern end of the island group known as the Lesser Antilles) – is expected tonight.

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[Tom Rinaldo]

1. Talking about Trump? That degeneraion is well underway.

"Don’s health is not particularly good." No kidding.