Dangerous Dean is now heading towards Yucatan Peninsula

Hurricane Dean slashed through southern Jamaica and is currently moving westward at 21 miles per hour, expecting to approach the east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula tonight. Dean is still a category 4 storm with its 150 mile winds, but is expected to strengthen into a category 5 over the next 24 hours, according to the National Weather Service in Brownsville.

Dean will sweep across the peninsula and make landfall again near Tuxpan, Veracruz, about 280 nautical miles south of Brownsville.