Tropical Storm Aiden

<!--Tropical Storm Aiden was the first storm of the 2018 Nintedo Hurricane season and the first storm to be given a name in the Nintendo Ocean basin. Aiden formed on May 25 after a tropical disturbance was located by the Seaside Peninsula. Due to the strong wind shear, it was hard for Aiden to form as it stays in the Kong Sea. As it got to the Gulf of Pong, Aiden soon gained strength and reached winds of 65 MPH (100 km/h) and had a pressure of 990 mbar (hPa; 29.23 inHg). Dry air caused Aiden to weaken as it had winds up to 45 MPH by the time it had approached land.

A total of five people died in Paperland after Subtropical Storm Aiden made landfall. On May 28, two news reporters from the Mushroom Kingdom news WMKN died after a tree crashed down on them. Additionally, two others died in a collapsed home in Hyrule State, after a landslide pushed a tree and crashed into their home. While another died due to a mudslide on May 25. Seven people drowned amid floods in the region. Total insured losses from Aiden were estimated at around $125 million (USD), with damage to over 10,000 structures.

Meteorological history
On May 21, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) and the Video Game Meteorological Association (VGMA) started to watch an area of low pressure that had formed over the north-western Kong Sea from the interaction between an upper-level low and a surface trough. The low slowly but surely organized as it lingered, but was inhibited by strong wind shear and dry air. The storm soon sufficiently organized structure, and the NHC designated the system as "Subtropical Storm Aiden" at 15:00 UTC on May 25. At that time, the system contained multiple low-level circulations, and was interacting with an upper-level trough. On May 26, the center of circulation reformed under the primary area of convection in the Gulf of Pong, northeast of the previous weak circulation in the Kong.

As Aiden paralleled the coast, a large band of thunderstorms persisted east of the storm. Early on May 28, the Hurricane Hunters observed maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 km/h), although the center remained somewhat elongated; this was Aiden's peak intensity. Due to the dry air, the storm failed to transition to a tropical storm and weakened before making landfall 25 miles north of Beauford, Minecraft, at 21:00 UTC with winds of 45 mph (75 km/h). Aiden slowly weakened as it moved inland, but continued to produce heavy rainfall. The weakening system then transitioned to a tropical depression early on May 30 near Elmore, WS. Aiden continued northward into Minecraft again, before transitioning to a post-tropical cyclone late on May 31 as it degenerated into a non-tropical low. The remnant low subsequently merged with a frontal system over up north, early the next day.

Aiden was unusual as it maintained its strength over land due to a phenomenon known as the brown ocean effect. Conditions over land imitated those over open water which allowed Aiden to become the 11th known cyclone to reach that far north over land as a tropical depression. This event happens so infrequently that Aiden was the earliest known tropical depression to do this before June 1 (the official start to hurricane season).

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