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The National Hurricane Center said Karl was about 435 kilometers east of Chetumal, Mexico, moving in a west-northwesterly direction with 65 kilometer per hour wind speeds.
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The National Hurricane Center said Karl was about 435 kilometers east of Chetumal, Mexico, moving in a west-northwesterly direction with 65 kilometer per hour wind speeds.
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It's about 400 miles from that west-northwesterly movement.
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And I think that's what's going to drive it more northerly rather than west-northwesterly like it is right now.
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It is still taking a northerly track, but in the discussion they did mention that maybe it could be pulling a little bit more west-northwesterly, as we were mentioning earlier in the show, Wolf, that we saw maybe a little bit of a wobble.
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The forecast track remains moving on a westerly motion, but a little bit of a jog more northwesterly instead of west-northwesterly as expected.
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The latest advisory showed winds of 145 miles per hour and it's moving west-northwesterly on a track to keep it south of Jamaica, south of the Cayman Islands and then heading towards the Yucatan Peninsula probably Monday night and into Tuesday.
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It's doing a bit of a wobble here, it's been doing it over the last couple hours, but the general direction is west-northwesterly.
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It has been moving west-northwesterly, maximum sustained winds around 40 miles per hour.
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The storm is heading west-northwesterly and we should be feeling the effects across the Keys pretty soon.
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