Typhoon Saola has intensified into a super typhoon northeast of the Philippines and will likely remain in that category until landfall in Taiwan, the Philippine national weather bureau said.
Saola isn’t expected to make a Philippine landfall, but is forecast to veer round to the northwest and hit the southern Taiwan coastline on Wednesday evening or early Thursday morning, the bureau Pagasa said in an 11 a.m. advisory.
Saola is affecting parts of main Luzon Island with a level 3 tropical cyclone warning in the eastern end of Isabela province, indication winds that can cause “heavy damage to high-risk structures” may be expected within 18 hours, the bureau said. Cagayan and Isabela were among the areas hit by super typhoon Doksuri in July. Half a million people were affected and 14 died. The storm destroyed more than 1.3 billion pesos of agricultural crops and caused about 2.66 billion pesos of damage to infrastructure.
It is expected begin to loop over the Philippine Sea today and turn northeastward on Monday before shifting toward Taiwan on Tuesday. “Taiwan’s rugged terrain will weaken the super typhoon,” reducing its intensity to a “severe tropical storm or a minimal typhoon” before emerging over the Taiwan Strait, Pagasa said.
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