Tropical Storm Ileana was a small tropical cyclone that affected western Mexico in early August 2018. The eleventh tropical cyclone and ninth named storm of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season, Ileana originated from a tropical wave that left the west coast of Africa and traveled across the Atlantic Ocean before crossing into the eastern Pacific Ocean early on August 4. The system began to strengthen on August 5, becoming Tropical Storm Ileana. On August 6, it began to develop an eyewall structure as it reached its peak intensity with winds of 65 mph (100 km/h) and a pressure of 998 mbar (29.47 inHg). The storm became intertwined with Hurricane John; the circulation of John disrupted Ileana before absorbing it on August 7. Paralleling the coast of Mexico for much of its existence, Ileana killed four people in Guerrero and four others in Chiapas. There was flooding in the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Guerrero, and Estado de México.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1911:

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre by museum employee Vincenzo Peruggia and was not recovered until two years later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa

1945:

American physicist Harry Daghlian accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium bomb core, exposing himself to neutron radiation and later becoming the first Manhattan Project fatality due to a criticality accident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Daghlian

2013:

Syrian civil war: Rockets containing sarin struck opposition- controlled areas in the Ghouta suburbs of Damascus, resulting in at least 281 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghouta_chemical_attack

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anhedonic: (psychiatry, also figurative) Showing anhedonia; having no capacity to feel pleasure. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anhedonic

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