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Hurricane Genevieve forms in Pacific
Washington (AFP) July 25, 2008 Hurricane Genevieve has formed over the Pacific to the west of Mexico but is expected to remain out at sea, the US National Hurricane Center announced Friday. With sustained winds of 120 kilometers (75 miles) per hour, the storm reached category one strength on the Saffir-Simpson 1-to-5 scale, becoming the fourth Pacific hurricane of the season, the Miami-based NHC said in its latest bulletin. At 1500 GMT Friday the eye of the storm was about 945 kilometers (590 miles) southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and was churning on a west-northwest course at 19 kilometers per hour (12 mph), the NHC said. The center expected little change in the hurricane's course or strength in the next 24 hours and predicted that Genevieve could begin to weaken late on Saturday. One person was killed in Mexico this week by Hurricane Dolly, which dumped rain over Texas and Mexico after pummeling the coast. The Gulf of Mexico's first hurricane of 2008 ripped off rooftops, shattered windows, toppled trees and power lines and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in estimated damage. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Dolly Now A Tropical Storm, Shattered Brownsville Rainfall Records
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 25, 2008After making landfall yesterday afternoon as a Category 2 hurricane, Dolly has weakened into a tropical storm and continues dumping heavy rains inland over Texas and northeastern Mexico. Dolly Parton's song "Steady as the Rain" from her "Grass is Blue" CD is very appropriate for this storm as it broke the record in Brownsville, Texas for the wettest single day ever! |
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