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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTropical Storm Don has formed in the Atlantic
...Tropical storm watches have been issued for the Barbados, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and St. Lucia, the islands north of Grenada.
Don is the 2017 Atlantic hurricane seasons fourth named storm the latest in whats been a busy start to the season....
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Dons maximum sustained winds were 40 mph, with tropical storm-force winds extending out 25 miles from the core. The storm was moving west at 17 mph.
With 40 mph winds, Don was just above the minimum threshold for a tropical storm of 39 mph.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/fl-reg-tropics-july-17-story.html
Warpy
(111,275 posts)and it looks like it'll skim the top of South America.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)...and climate hacks have caused Shitstorm Donnie to emerge and aim at America's vitals? If there is, we would certainly want to know about it.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)I literally want ANYTHING named "Don" to crumble into nothing as fast as humanly possible....besides, you just KNOW that Trump is sitting somewhere jerking it to pictures of Macron's wife and fantasizing about having the biggest hurricane ever named after him...to which a fitting retort would be "no, it was like you and it too flamed out early while only meeting the bare minimum requirements to be what it was called"...
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)there may soon be a Hilary
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)to have some
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief Shitstorm.
Runningdawg
(4,520 posts)45 is just busy with soooo many other important things.
mia
(8,361 posts)WASHINGTON D.C. - The Senate has confirmed the nomination of President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The vote was 95-4 on Tuesday to confirm Brock Long. He previously ran Alabama's Emergency Management Agency and served as that state's on-scene incident commander during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
Long takes over the agency at the beginning of hurricane season. The agency has already managed 41 disaster declarations this year, and the Trump administration has proposed cutting nearly $1 billion from the agency's budget.
More than $500 million in proposed cuts would come from FEMA's grant programs, including the grants for predisaster mitigation efforts.
Runningdawg
(4,520 posts)Thanks for posting.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)The weather's going to be great all year long. No global warming.