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north-northwesterly

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  • The reduction of wind speed, the Hurricane Hunter aircraft had been in there and haven't seen a great deal of organization, about 400 miles south of Cape Hatteras, it is moving north-northwesterly about eight, nine miles an hour.

    CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2009 2009

  • Here you can see on the radar picture, the eye is in the northeast of the area now, almost kind of parallel here between Spring and the Ames area, is moving north-northwesterly at this hour.

    CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2008 2008

  • The storm is moving north-northwesterly right now.

    CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2007 2007

  • Still a Category 1 storm, but it is a stronger Category 1 storm and it is heading north-northwesterly right now and will be hitting Cabo San Lucas here in the next few hours.

    CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2007 2007

  • Notice the wind coming in out of the north, near Hartford, back over to Newark, more of a north-northwesterly breeze, around 20 to 18 miles an hour -- in Nantucket, 38 to 34 miles an hour.

    CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2007 2007

  • It's very close to the Haiti coast at this time and moving on a north-northwesterly track.

    CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2007 2007

  • You know, we typically think about Santa Ana winds, this time of year, and we think, when we hear about winds in Southern California, well we've got a couple of storms that are piling into the West Coast and they're actually not Santa Ana winds, but just your ordinary Joe north-northwesterly winds.

    CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2007 2007

  • It is now moving north-northwesterly at about 15 miles an hour, a very distinct eye.

    CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2005 2005

  • Its movement is north-northwesterly at 15 miles per hour.

    CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2005 2005

  • Obviously the Concorde was heading in the north-northwesterly direction, as far as we all are aware.

    CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Air France Concorde Jet Crashes Near Paris; All 109 Aboard Dead - July 25, 2000 2000

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