Tropical Storm Dolly heads for Gulf of Mexico – NHC

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

Weather models projected the storm would march across the southwestern Gulf and strike the South Texas coast near the border with Mexico in about three days. Forecasters said interests in the western Gulf should monitor the progress of the storm.

… The NHC was also issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Cristobal, about 30 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. And it was monitoring a well-defined tropical wave over western Africa.

The NHC said the wave had the potential to become a tropical cyclone very quickly after it emerges into the eastern Atlantic within the next day or two.

Energy traders watch for storms that could enter the Gulf of Mexico and threaten U.S. oil and gas production facilities.

Reuters