PrairiePundit

Click the image for a larger view. It appears that Dean is south of the island at 1 a.m. GMT. You can get more on the storm here. If the storm maintains it current course it will go across the Yucatan and into Mexico's interior. They will probably welcome the rain if not the wind.

This is the Weather Underground five day forecast. Click on the image for a larger view. I would not that this for out it could still hit almost anywhere on the Gulf Coast. Several days before Katrina struck New Orleans, similar forecasts had it heading for the middle Texas coast.