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https://apnews.com/867eaac9154748c3bdd184736a9e09da

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not a tweet storm but a real storm.

The newest potentially dangerous swirl of hot air is a tropical storm in the Atlantic named Don.

And it’s a total coincidence that the storm bears a common nickname for the president of the United States.

Tropical storms and hurricanes are named several years in advance in a non-political way by an international committee of meteorologists. This is the second time there’s been a Tropical Storm Don in the Atlantic — 2011′s Don fizzled out before it hit land.

“I hadn’t even thought about that,” said Max Mayfield, the former National Hurricane Center director who chaired the committee that added the name Don to the storm list in 2006. “I guarantee you that it has no connection to Donald Trump.”

It is unlikely that Don the storm will be retired. The hurricane center’s forecast discussion calls the storm “small,” ″not particularly well organized” and likely to dissipate in 72 hours. But storm watches and warnings were issued for Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and St. Lucia.

You're not even subtle any more these days, God

 

[Battlezone]

The hurricane center’s forecast discussion calls the storm “small,” ″not particularly well organized” and likely to dissipate in 72 hours.

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

Fake Forecast!


This Hurricane has the biggest hands. Theres no bigger hands on a hurricane than those.

 

[T Ghost]

#fakenews

Spoiler

 

[Shadow Puppetry]

The hurricane center’s forecast discussion calls the storm “small,”

 

[adj_noun]

This year was bound to put storm names under a political microscope. In the eastern Pacific the eighth name on this year’s list is “Hilary.”

Looking forward to Tropical Storm Bernard.

 

[Nerdkiller]

The hurricane center’s forecast discussion calls the storm “small,” ″not particularly well organized” and likely to dissipate in 72 hours.

 

[aspiegamer]

Here's the official scientific discussion on the matter. Even I'm having an extremely hard time finding any way to make this sound lewd. Weather is hard, people.

Don is embedded within a narrow east-west zone of low shear, and that shear is expected to remain low for another 24 hours or so. Since the cyclone has a compact circulation, significant changes in intensity--both up and down--become more likely. [...] After 24 hours, increasing westerly shear should induce weakening while Don moves through the southeastern Caribbean Sea, and the cyclone is expected to degenerate into an open wave by 72 hours, if not sooner. Since model guidance varies widely between only showing an open wave (most of the global models) ... it cannot be stressed enough that confidence in the intensity forecast is very low at this time.

TLDR; it's fucked, and lacks the properties of a suggestive metaphor for our current President.