Pagasa further advised that Nika is expected to strengthen into a typhoon by Sunday and may reach its peak intensity before making landfall over Isabela or Aurora on Monday morning or early afternoon. Due to these developments, Pagasa raised Tropical ...

Severe Tropical Storm Nika (international name: Toraji) has continued to intensify and is expected to reach typhoon strength before making landfall in the coming hours.

Signal No. 2 has been raised over 11 areas in Luzon as Severe Tropical Storm Nika slightly intensified as it moved west, state weather bureau PAGASA said Sunday afternoon. In its 2 p.m. bulletin, PAGASA said Nika has maximum sustained winds of 110 km/h near the center and gustiness of up to 135 km/h.

Typhoon Yinxing battered the northern Philippines with floods and landslides before blowing away from the country, leaving two airports damaged and aggravating a calamity caused by back-to-back storms that hit in recent weeks.

Typhoon Yinxing made landfall in the Philippines on Thursday, bringing dangerous winds and intense rainfall to Luzon, the nation’s most populous island. The tropical cyclone, known locally as Marce, hit the north coast of Luzon twice,