Well Hello, Dolly!

[marmar]

Reuters, via Yahoo!:



Tropical Storm Dolly heads for Gulf of Mexico: NHC
1 hour, 8 minutes ago



NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Dolly was about to emerge off the northern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula early Monday and move into the Gulf of Mexico where it could become a hurricane on Tuesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest report.

Weather models projected the storm would march across the southwestern Gulf and strike the South Texas coast in about three days. Some models showed a strike near the Texas border with Mexico, while others showed Dolly hitting further north along the Texas coast near Corpus Christi.

Forecasters said interests in the western Gulf should monitor the progress of the storm.

A tropical storm warning was in effect for the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico from the border with Belize to Campeche, Mexico, the NHC said.

Dolly was moving west-northwest at nearly 16 miles per hour, with a continued west-northwestward motion expected for the next couple of days and a decrease in forward speed on Tuesday.

Maximum sustained winds were near 50 mph with higher gusts. Strengthening was expected to begin later Monday as the center of the storm moves into the Gulf.

The NHC was also issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Cristobal, about 110 miles northeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and was monitoring a large, well-defined tropical wave just inland over extreme western Africa. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080721/ts_nm/weather_dolly_position_dc_3

[HCE SuiGeneris]

1. A couple of visuals showing new organization and rotation...

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t2/loop-vis.html
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/HURRLOOPS/gulfwv.html

[navarth]

2. not to worry! global warmings is mostly sikollogical.

k & r

[Pab Sungenis]

4. It's a mental hurricane.

[mmonk]

3. I was expecting a photo of Dolly Parton.

[alfredo]

5. An eye wall is forming