07.22.2008 10:15 pm
Hurricane Dolly threatens Texas and Mexico
Tropical Storm Dolly has grown into a category one hurricane as it heads towards the US-Mexican border, forcing the evacuation of thousands in Mexico while the US Navy sheltered aircraft (BBC). National Hurricane Centre (NHC) warned that the hurricane was expected to make landfall “in the early morning hours” of tomorrow (from around midnight Wednesday, AEST).
Dolly drenched popular tourist resorts on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula at the weekend but caused no damage. Texas has put 1,200 National Guard troops and other emergency crews on alert.
The NHC has forecast that this year’s hurricane season would run until November and be active with up to nine hurricanes and 12 tropical storms.
Dr. Abduwasit Ghulam is a geospatial and environmental scientist from the Center for Environmental Sciences at Saint Louis University. He has been actively involved in research and education in remote sensing and GIS, climate change, human interactions on the changing environment and natural disasters such as droughts and floods. 
Authorities expected that Dolly would be the first hurricane to hit the U.S. since last September could produce up to 20 inches of rain in some areas, possibly breaching levees in the heavily populated Rio Grande Valley. But shortly before coming ashore, the Category 2 storm meandered 35 miles north of the border, veering away from the flood walls.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080724/ap_on_re_us/tropical_weather