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Tropical depression forms in Caribbean
(CNN) -- A tropical depression swirled in the southeastern Caribbean Sea on Monday, threatening to become the 24th named storm in an already record-setting 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. The National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, said the depression could become Tropical Storm Gamma, perhaps by Monday evening. Storms have used up all the set names for the season, and the hurricane center has gone to Greek letters. (Watch where the storm is heading and when -- 1:55) At 10 a.m. ET Monday, the system was about 175 miles (281 kilometers) west of St. Lucia, with top sustained winds at about 35 mph (56 kph), 4 mph short of the threshold for a tropical storm. The depression was moving toward the west-northwest near 7 mph (11 kph), and that general motion was expected to continue for the next 24 hours. "Some strengthening is forecast and the depression could become a tropical storm later today or tonight," the forecast said. "Winds could still gust to tropical storm-force over the higher terrain of the Windward Islands today." Rain accumulations of 5 to 8 inches were expected in the Windward Islands and 3 to 5 inches in the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, with isolated amounts of up to 12 inches possible in higher terrain areas. 
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