Super Typhoon Koppu, known as Lando in the Philippines, made landfall near Casiguran in Luzon's Aurora province at 1 a.m. local time Sunday morning, after a long-feared rapid intensification.
Reports of power outages were already coming in from the town of Baler, southwest of the eye late Saturday night.
Enhanced Satellite
This infrared satellite image is enhanced to show colder, and therefore higher, cloud tops in various shades of red and violet. Such clouds are associated with vigorous thunderstorms. Wind data may disappear if the observing equipment is damaged.
The U.S. military's Joint Typhoon Warning Center upgraded Koppu to a super typhoon, a term used for typhoons with maximum winds of at least 150 mph, equivalent of a Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale in its 11 a.m. EDT advisory Saturday.
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The slow-moving storm made landfall near the town of Casiguran on the main island of Luzon on Sunday morning.
Koppu is predicted to bring three days of torrential rain, triggering floods, storm surges and possibly landslides.
Disaster officials said a few thousand people living in vulnerable coastal areas had already sought shelter.
Earlier, President Benigno Aquino made a televised warning, the first time he had done so since Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, which killed more than 6,300 people.
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