Simplify the following text for a Grade 7 native English-speaking person.
Original: After over two months without tropical cyclone development , the season 's second tropical depression developed out of a tropical wave on August 11 over the extreme eastern Atlantic , near the Cape Verde Islands . The following day , the system briefly reached tropical storm status , although the storm was not operationally named at this point as it was initially thought to have remained a tropical depression .
Simplified: Tropical Depression Eight was said that it would become a tropical storm , this did not happen .