Several Caribbean islands were put on a tropical storm watch on Friday after a tropical depression formed east of the Lesser Antilles. The Miami-based National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said that the depression was about 675 miles east of the Leeward Islands and had maximum sustained winds of 35 miles per hour (mph). A tropical storm watch has been issued for the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts-Nevis, Anguilla, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, St Martin, St Barthelemy as well as Sint Maarten. The NHC said that the depression is moving towards the west near 22
