Hurricane Humberto News

By Jose Cortazar

CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Dolly churned toward southern Texas on Monday, and forecasters said they expected it to grow into a hurricane before hitting land near the Mexican border later this week.

The storm, with sustained winds of nearly 50 mph (85 kph), emerged from the Yucatan Peninsula over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. A hurricane watch was issued for the southern Texas coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Dolly was 475 miles southeast of the border, where it was due to hit on Wednesday near Brownsville, well away from sensitive offshore drilling rigs and production platforms.

By Jose Cortazar

CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Dolly churned toward southern Texas on Monday, and forecasters said they expected it to grow into a hurricane before hitting land near the Mexican border later this week.

The storm, with sustained winds of nearly 50 mph (85 kph), emerged from the Yucatan Peninsula over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. A hurricane watch was issued for the southern Texas coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Dolly was 475 miles southeast of the border, where it was due to hit on Wednesday near Brownsville, well away from sensitive offshore drilling rigs and production platforms.

For much of Houston, the storm has brought a modest, but welcome amount of rain.

The relative calm of the 2006 and 2007 U.S. hurricane seasons may not continue into 2008 with Hurricane Dolly making landfall today in Texas, according to the Insurance Information Institute .

Abigail Bush and her three children were having a blast at the beach Monday. The day trip was a bit of summer vacation fun for the Kinder, La., residents.

Hurricane forecasters say Tropical Storm Dolly should strengthen as it enters the Gulf of Mexico and her projected landfall is Texas.

By Jose Cortazar

CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Dolly churned toward southern Texas on Monday, and forecasters said they expected it to grow into a hurricane before hitting land near the Mexican border later this week.

The storm, with sustained winds of nearly 50 mph (85 kph), emerged from the Yucatan Peninsula over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. A hurricane watch was issued for the southern Texas coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Dolly was 475 miles southeast of the border, where it was due to hit on Wednesday near Brownsville, well away from sensitive offshore drilling rigs and production platforms.

Tropical Storm Bertha graduated into Hurricane Bertha this morning far out in the Atlantic Ocean.

In spring 2005, Entergy New Orleans Inc. practiced a storm drill that involved 20 feet of water in the city; then Katrina happened.

On Aug. 12, 1991, a tropical cyclone began forming several hundred miles from Bermuda.

The Red Cross is inviting you to a hurricane party. The organization's largest fundraiser of the year helps raise money for supplies and equipment it needs during emergencies, including hurricanes.

With one named storm already on the books for the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, Colorado State University hurricane forecasters Phil Klotzbach and William Gray have repeated their April 9 forecast.

Pete Churton/The Enterprise Rogers Broussard sorts through debris in September 2007 after Hurricane Humberto took the roof off the business he owns with his wife, Shantell Broussard.

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Conditions are in place for an active hurricane season, with government scientists predicting an above-average number of storms in 2008.

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“Rapid intensification is very hard to predict”

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