On Tuesday, Tropical Storm Dolly intensified over the western Gulf of Mexico as it bore down on South Texas, but meteorologists don’t forecast it to pack too much of a punch, when it washes ashore near the Mexican border as a hurricane on Wednesday.

According to Reuters, a news-wire service, “the storm, with sustained winds of nearly 70 miles per hour, was nearing hurricane strength, and the U.S. National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane watch for the southern Texas coast as far north as Corpus Christi.”

As of 2 p.m. EDT, Dolly was 195 miles southeast of Brownsville, Tx., a border town, where it was due to come ashore on Wednesday as a low-grade hurricane.

But the storm’s predicted landfall and strength would unlikely jeopardize sensitive offshore drilling rigs and production platforms in the U.S. and Mexican waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Accordingly, U.S. crude oil prices fell over $4 a barrel on Tuesday.

As reported by Reuters, “the United States has largely escaped the past two Atlantic hurricane seasons, with just one hurricane – Humberto in November, 2007 – making landfall on its coasts.”

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