By 5 p.m. (2100 GMT), the depression was about 250 miles (405 km) southeast of the islands, and moving toward the west-northwest at 12 miles (19 km) per hour, the Miami-based U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
It was too early to predict whether the weather system would eventually reach the Gulf of Mexico or the U.S. East coast, both battered last year by a record hurricane season that produced 28 storms, including Hurricane Katrina.
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