sidle
verb (used without object)
to move sideways or obliquely.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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And every day this map shows in all its gripping details the way our storms are sidling across the continent or rushing up our coasts.
From Reading the Weather by Thomas Morris Longstreth