How to Use southeastward in a Sentence

southeastward

noun
  • The showers will settle southeastward into the state for this afternoon and tonight.
    — courant.com, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Showers are expected to taper off quickly from west to east overnight as this system heads southeastward.
    — oregonlive, 2 May 2022
  • Radar on Thursday morning showed the storm was moving southeastward, Hand said.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The fires there and in other states sent a plume of smoke drifting southeastward across Brazil, darkening the skies over some cities and towns.
    — Andrew Freedman, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The fires there and in other states sent a plume of smoke drifting far southeastward across Brazil, darkening the skies over some cities and towns.
    — oregonlive.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • It is expected to quickly move southeastward through the afternoon.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 4 May 2021
  • Forecasters expect this complex of storms to continue to move southeastward through the morning.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 1 July 2020
  • Moving south-southeastward at about six miles per hour, the storm is expected to track right along the coast through the weekend before heading back out to sea on Monday.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2014
  • Portland will just see rain before this system digs south-southeastward into California overnight.
    — oregonlive, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Winds were expected to carry the smoke southeastward toward Seward, forecasters said.
    — Madeline McGee, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2019
  • Forecasters said thunderstorms over middle Tennessee will track southeastward across the watch area through the afternoon, posing a risk of damaging wind gusts.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 20 July 2023
  • The line of storms was forecast to advance southeastward through the I-95 corridor during evening rush hour, AccuWeather said.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 15 May 2018
  • In some areas downwind of the Great Lakes, the first snowflakes of the season are possible late Sunday into Monday as the cold air spills southeastward.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Miller said Claudette got a boost early June 21 from a cold front dropping southeastward from the Ohio Valley, with most of the storm’s winds weighing on its southeast side.
    — al, 28 June 2021
  • The ridge quickly moves out late Friday, and a system dropping southeastward from British Columbia will bring cooler air and windy conditions to most of western Oregon.
    — oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Those storms have the potential to grow into a mesoscale convective system, or MCS, that could hold together and track southeastward toward Alabama overnight.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 14 June 2023
  • Snow will build from the Canadian Rockies into the Plains, moving southeastward toward the Appalachians by Friday.
    — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
  • In Portland, Thursday will bring another shot of rain, sometimes moderate, as another system dives southeastward from the Gulf of Alaska.
    — oregonlive, 18 May 2022
  • Forecasters said storms are now expected to develop across northern Mississippi late tonight and spread southeastward into Alabama during the early morning hours.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 11 Mar. 2023
  • As the front pushes southeastward into Tuesday, the Northeast will finally be able to enjoy calm, seasonable weather, AccuWeather said.
    — Editors, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022
  • Jim Allison, an archaeologist at Brigham Young University who was not involved in the paper, agreed the findings mesh with other evidence of a southeastward migration.
    — Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2017

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