(WRIC) — As of 11 p.m. Tuesday, June 20, Tropical Storm Bret has maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour and is heading due west at 17 miles per hour, according to the National Hurricane Center.
On the forecast track, Bret will continue to head due west towards the Lesser Antilles and strengthen to a high end Tropical Storm in the coming days.
Currently, there is a tropical storm watch out for Barbados, Dominica, Martinique and St. Lucia.
By the weekend, the tropical system will encounter unfavorable conditions in the Central Caribbean Sea and begin to weaken.
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