HURRICANE DEAN SUPPLEMENTAL UPDATE 17:30 Hrs USA CDT, August 20, 2007
After devastating parts of Jamaica and doing significant damage on Grand Cayman Island, Hurricane Dean will make landfall on the eastern Yucatan Penninsula Tuesday morning, August 21. It will then loose some of it's strength by passing over the mountains in the area and re-emerge into the southern Gulf of Mexico later Tuesday.
At this time, the storm track will cross the southern Gulf of Mexico and place the hurricane on land in east central Mexico early Wednesday morning August 22.
The weather system timing that was so critical to the storm making any northerly turns has not materialized. However, since this storm is so wide, persons in southeastern Texas coastal areas are preparing for gusty winds and significant rainfall starting late Tuesday into Thursday and Friday. This storm may possibly strengthen to Category 5 levels later tonight.
Our next update will be around 05:30 AM Tuesday August 21.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
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