Definition of northeastward
: toward the northeast
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The zone extends almost continuously through the mantle, rooted in the core–mantle boundary beneath Mexico and running northeastward up to Yellowstone National Park.
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The disturbance is forecast to move generally northeastward, merging with a frontal system over the western Atlantic by Tuesday night.
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The National Weather Service issued flash flood alerts for much of West Tennessee as the still-potent storm slogged northeastward into the nation's interior after its catastrophic drenching of parts of Texas and Louisiana.
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First Known Use of northeastward
1553
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Note that while Washington is forecast to get the equivalent of 0.3 inches of liquid (equating to 2 to 3 inches of snow), that a band of 0.4 inches (3 to 4 inches of snow) extends from just west of Washington north-northeastward into Pennsylvania.
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At that point some models (the Canadian and the ECMWF) are on the west side of the forecast cone, and the GFS is on the right with a north-northeastward track.
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Cloudiness and thunderstorms extending from northern Nicaragua and eastern Honduras northeastward across the Cayman Islands and Jamaica to eastern Cuba are associated with the disturbance.
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Dennis made landfall in Monroe County on Aug. 17 and then moved north-northeastward.
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Snowfall rates of one-half inch to one inch per hour will be possible, especially under the heaviest precipitation from near Windsor northeastward to Briggsdale.
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Satellite imagery late Monday evening showed the center of a large storm system continuing northeastward across the upper Great Lakes.
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: toward the northeast
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