Tropical Storm Bertha, the second named storm of the 2014 Atlantic Hurricane Season, has formed east of the southern Lesser Antilles, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Thursday.
_0">The storm was located about 275 miles (445 km) east-southeast of Barbados, and about 385 miles (620 km) east-southeast of St. Lucia, with maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour (75 kph), the Miami-based weather forecasters said.
The storm is moving toward the west-northwest at near 20 miles per hour (31 kph).
(Reporting by Anupam Chatterjee in Bangalore; Editing by Anupama Dwivedi)