Was there ever a Hurricane Donald?

[question everything]

[Totally Tunsie]

1. Yes, in 2023.

Unlike the current occupant of the White House, it remained in the ocean and posed no threat to land.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/tropical-storm-don-hurricane.html

Don Is Downgraded to a Post-Tropical Cyclone
The storm, which poses no threat to land, had strengthened into the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2023 season over the weekend.

[jls4561]

4. You're telling me that there was a Hurricane Donald, but it "petered out "?

Fitting.

[Totally Tunsie]

5. Yup - it was in pre-TACO days.

[Jack Valentino]

10. so it had a tiny penis. DEJA VU!!!!!!!

[Lovie777]

2. No................

and we the people are tired of it.................

[marble falls]

3. No. But there's Asshole Donald.

[DBoon]

6. no, but I bet there would be one

if foul smelling sulfuric eruptions were named

[2MuchNoise]

7. Just a lot of wind.

[LeftInTX]

8. There was a tropical storm named Don. It was the biggest dud ever!

A WOAI-TV weather segment on YouTube called it the "Tropical Storm Don FAIL."

It was 2011 during the hottest, driest summer in Texas history.


Don didn't strengthen much and would otherwise be largely forgotten, even by most meteorologists, if it wasn't for its bizarre landfall.

As Don neared the Texas coast on the night of July 29 with tropical storm warnings in place, it virtually vanished.



National Hurricane Center forecaster Eric Blake, working the night of Don's landfall, in his discussion early the following morning: "The cyclone literally evaporated over Texas about as fast as I have ever seen without mountains involved."

That fizzling happened in the span of just a few hours, while Don's center was still technically over the Gulf of Mexico.

"It was a classic," said Blake on Twitter. "The radar went into clear air mode as it was making landfall."

National Weather Service Doppler radar is typically in clear air mode when there's an absence of precipitation, focusing on detection of bugs or other particles rather than rain or snow.

Instead of the classic radar presentation with a hurricane or tropical storm landfall, Don's 2011 landfall featured only faint radar echoes suggestive of a former center of circulation.

A WOAI-TV weather segment on YouTube called it the "Tropical Storm Don FAIL."


It evaporated just as it was gonna make landfall. We were all watching for rain. Then, all of a sudden the storm fricken evaporated.

Infrared satellite image at 7 p.m. CDT (left) and 10 p.m. CDT (right) of Tropical Storm Don as it fizzled making landfall in South Texas on July 29, 2011. The darker orange, red, purple colors denote higher cloud tops and more vigorous thunderstorms.

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[Jack Valentino]

11. "was a BIGGER DUD THAN ANYONE HAS EVER SEEN!!!!"

I'm starting to GET IN to this Gavin "mocking Trump's posting style!" lmao


"THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!"

[imanamerican63]

9. Yep!

That’s where the sharpie pen became so powerful!