ORLANDO, Fla. — Tropical Storm Bret formed in the Atlantic on Monday with a forecast track that sees it growing to hurricane strength as it barrels into the Caribbean this week, according to the National Hurricane Center.
What was initially dubbed Tropical Depression Three in the NHC’s initial 11 a.m. ET advisory spun up into named-storm status by 5 p.m. ET, with the center of Bret located 1,295 miles east of the southern Windward Islands generating maximum sustained winds of 40 mph while the system heads west at 21 mph.
Tropical-storm-force winds extend out 45 miles.
