Steady weakening took place as the storm continued a northwesterly track due to a trough.
The track of the center was pushed by an upper-level low, off the coast of Florida, onto a northwesterly track, from its west-northwest track.
The eye of the storm passed to the southwest of New Orleans on a northwesterly track.
From Crossville, it travels in a northerly direction to Geraldine where it again resumes its northwesterly track.
One day after being named, Marilyn was upgraded to hurricane status, while turning on a more northwesterly track.
A more northwesterly track also began to appear as it approached the Bahamas.
Most tropical cyclone prediction models indicated a northwesterly track that never happened, and also over-intensified the system.
Storm Three moved slowly for the first five days while moving on a more northwesterly track.
It took the usual northwesterly track for hurricanes in the eastern Pacific.
The intensifying system maintained a northwesterly track in response to a subtropical ridge over the northwest Pacific.