Central America

Weather Underground Forecast for Wednesday, July 23, 2008.

Hurricane Fausto, located to the southwest of Baja California, is expected to move westward away from land and weaken to either a tropical storm or a tropical depression on Wednesday. Tropical Depression Eight-E, located off of the western coast of Mexico, will also move westward away from land, and will strengthen into a tropical storm, or possibly a hurricane, on Wednesday. An area of low pressure located near Tropical Depression Eight-E is not likely to develop. In the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Dolly is expected to have strengthened into a hurricane by Wednesday, and will begin to make landfall somewhere near the border of Texas and Mexico. Tropical Storm Cristobal is expected to move to the northeast away from the eastern coast of the U.S. Meanwhile, low pressure will trigger showers and storms across the eastern half of Mexico, while a tropical wave moving through Central America will produce heavy rain and storms over the region on Wednesday. The Caribbean Islands will see scattered showers and storms throughout the day.