The National Hurricane Center in Miami said that Bret had maximum sustained winds of 40 miles per hour and the storm is expected to become a Category 1 hurricane by Wednesday nigh
Tropical Storm Bret has formed as of Monday and could become a hurricane in a few days. The official forecast track takes Bret into the Caribbean.SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Tropical Storm Bret formed in the central Atlantic Ocean on Monday, with forecasters saying it could pose a hurricane threat to the eastern Caribbean by Thursday and the Dominican Republic and Haiti by the weekend.
“Everyone in the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands should closely monitor updates to the forecast for this system and have their hurricane plan in place,” the center said. Almost a century has gone by since a storm last strengthened into a hurricane in the tropical Atlantic in June, according to Philip Klotzbach, a meteorologist at Colorado State University. The last such storm recorded was Trinidad in 1933, he tweeted.
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