Simplify the following text for a Grade 13 native English-speaking person.
Original: Tracking through an area of cool water temperatures , as well as unfavorable upper-level winds , the depression failed to achieve winds greater than 35 mph ( 55 km\/h ) , and thus did not attain tropical storm status .
Simplified: Moving through an area of cool water temperatures , as well as unfavorable upper-level winds , the depression was not able to get winds greater than 35 mph ( 55 km\/h ) , and as a result did not gain tropical storm status .