1.   We headed off in a northwesterly direction.

2.   Pilots also must contend with a crosscurrent that sometimes travels in a northwesterly direction toward the causeway.

3.   The Indian Meteorology Department said the cyclone was expected to move in a northwesterly direction, away from areas it had earlier been expected to hit.

4.   Hurricane Bertha headed toward the Bahamas and moved in a northwesterly direction, prompting storm watchers to urge residents of the mid-Atlantic US coast to watch developments.