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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.
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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.
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The storm is moving north-northwesterly right now.
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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.
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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.
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It's very close to the Haiti coast at this time and moving on a north-northwesterly track.
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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.
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It is now moving north-northwesterly at about 15 miles an hour, a very distinct eye.
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Its movement is north-northwesterly at 15 miles per hour.
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Obviously the Concorde was heading in the north-northwesterly direction, as far as we all are aware.
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