Tropical Depression 3 will approach the Lesser Antilles on Thursday and Friday.
The Miami-based National Hurricane Centre says a new tropical depression that formed in the Atlantic today is forecast to become a hurricane this week.
In its latest update at 11 a.m., the centre said Tropical Depression 3 is 2,293 kilometres east of the southern Windward Islands.
It's forecast to move west at about 33 kilometres across the central tropical Atlantic. It will approach the Lesser Antilles on Thursday and Friday.
The tropical depression's maximum sustained winds near 56 kilometers per hour with higher gusts.
Meanwhile, the National Hurricane Centre says showers and thunderstorms have increased in association with a tropical wave located south-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands.
There could be some gradual development through the middle and end of the week as it moves west at 16 to 24 kilometres per hour across the eastern and central tropical Atlantic.
This area has a 30 per cent chance of development through the next 48 hours and 40 per cent chance of development in the next seven days.
The next named storm will be Bret.
The Atlantic Hurricane season runs through to November 30.
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