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In a public advisory issued early Sunday morning, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) downgraded Hurricane Don, the first hurricane of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, to a Tropical Storm with no related watches or warnings.
The NHC's "Hurricane Don Advisory Number 37", made available at 5:00 a.m. AST on Sunday (0900 UTC), located Don approximately 346 miles (557 kilometers) south west of Newfoundland. Based on data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Don sustained winds at a maximum of 65 {w|miles per hour}} (100 kilometers per hour) heading north-northeast going 16 mph (26 kph). 
On Monday, Don was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone and spent most of its time far off the coast of Newfoundland. The NHC announced that there are no watches or warnings and that they would stop releasing Don related advisories. According to NOLA.com, Don posed no threat to any land mass dissipated late on Monday. 
Tropical Storm Don was the fifth cyclone to attain the status of tropical storm and the fourth to receive a name. An unnamed subtropical storm formed in January and was officially the first cyclone of 2023, though was not given a name as the tropical storm classification wasn't announced until May. 
Both hurricanes and tropical storms qualify as a tropical cyclones. The Saffir-Simpson scale is the reference used by the NHC for deciding what is a tropical cyclone. To be a category 1 hurricane, the storm system has to reach a sustained wind speed of atleast 74 mph (119 kph).

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Hurricane Don, first in season, weakens to tropical storm