Super typhoon Saola brings heavy rain to northern Philippines

MANILA (Bloomberg): Super typhoon ‘Saola’ is expected to make landfall on the Philippines on Wednesday, having already drenched parts of the north with heavy rains, before heading to southern Taiwan and the coast of China.

The storm briefly weakened into a typhoon over the Philippine Sea and may lose more power in the next few hours due to the upwelling of cooler ocean waters and the onset of dry air "before re-intensifying as it turns northwestward,” the Philippine weather bureau, known as Pagasa, said in an advisory Monday.