I’ve exhausted the easy rhymes on Tropical Storm Dolly, which is finally nudging hurricane status at seventy-four mph but seems headed for northern Mexico instead of southern Texas. But the right quandrant of a storm is the hardiest and so the Rio Grande Valley will get the worst of whatever she has when coming ashore sometime tomorrow. In Cameron County they’re getting up the plywood and preparing for flooding. Looks like Central Texas will get no rain at all, not even enough wind to worry about, unless one of the tornadoes these things often spawn should wander up our way. Which is doubtful.
UPDATE: The LCRA’s Bob Rose thinks we’ll get some rain, anyhow: "Rain amounts will be fairly low, generally around 0.5 inch to as high as about 1 inch. The remnants of Dolly are forecast to track west and dissipate over the mountains of northern Mexico Friday into Saturday. For our region, the chance for rain will decrease beginning Friday and weather conditions will return to hot and dry this weekend."
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