AlQa'dah 8, 1435, Sep 3, 2014, SPA -- Tropical Storm Dolly dropped heavy rain on Mexico's gulf coast before moving inland over mountains and weakening to a tropical depression on Wednesday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami said Dolly was centered about 100 kilometers west-southwest of Tampico with sustained winds of 55 kilometers per hour (kph), and it was moving west at 13 kph. The storm collapsed a street and house in the port city of Veracruz and prompted hundreds of schools to close in the states of Veracruz and Tamaulipas. Forecasters said it was expected to drop 12 to 25 centimeters of rain. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Norbert was swirling along Mexico's Pacific coast with maximum sustained winds of 95 kph and was expected to strengthen into a hurricane before brushing past the Los Cabos resorts at the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula on Thursday, the NHC said. Norbert was centered about 375 kilometers south of Los Cabos and was moving west-northwest at 13 kph early Wednesday. Mexico's National Meteorological Service warned it could bring heavy rain to a broad region of western and central Mexico.
