Nearly a million people were displaced, flights were canceled and classes remain suspended in many areas today as Super Typhoon Pepito barreled across Luzon, making two landfalls and causing extensive damage in its wake.

Super Typhoon Pepito (international name: Man-yi) is expected to slightly ease up into a typhoon, before it makes its second landfall in the vicinity of Aurora on Sunday afternoon. “Pepito is forecast to slightly weaken as a typhoon prior to its second landfall.

Signal No. 4 was raised over Catanduanes and part of northeastern Camarines Sur as tropical cyclone Pepito intensified into a super typhoon on Saturday, threatening the Bicol region, weather service PAGASA said.

Ahead of its landfall on Sunday, November 17, tropical cyclone "Pepito" (international name: Man-Yi) maintained its super typhoon category strength as it heads for the vicinity of Aurora where it is likely to make a landfall by midday.

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Super Typhoon Pepito (Man-yi) maintains its strength late Saturday afternoon, November 16, with maximum sustained winds of 195 km/h

Pepito is expected to intensify into a super typhoon on Saturday before making landfall in Catanduanes, state meteorologists said. “Pepito will continue to intensify today and may reach super typhoon category within the next hours prior to its landfall tonight or tomorrow early morning,

Super Typhoon Pepito has made landfall in Dipaculao, Aurora, the state-run weather agency said on Sunday. Nathaniel Servando, administrator of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) told The Manila Times via Viber that the super typhoon hit the landmass around 3:20 p.