National Hurricane Center
By Miguel Llanos, NBC News
A system growing in the Caribbean is nearing tropical storm status, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Thursday.
Tropical storm watches were in place for Barbados, Dominica, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia and St. Vincent.
Maximum winds were 35 mph, just?4 mph below the threshold for a tropical storm.
"Little change in strength is likely for the next day or so," the center said in its advisory, "but some strengthening is expected thereafter."
The next tropical storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season will be named Ernesto.
The system was 385 miles east of the Windward Islands and should be over that area on Friday.
The storm was on a path that could take it into the Gulf of Mexico next week.
The Atlantic hurricane season has started slowly, with the last tropical storm being Debby a month ago. It drenched Florida and eight deaths were tied to the storm.?
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