Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Fung-WoFung-Wong weakened into a typhoon Monday after hitting the Sierra Madre mountain range in northern Philippines, killing at least eight people and displacing some 1.4 million.
The storm, known as Uwan in the Philippines, is moving north-northwest into the South China Sea and was headed northward toward Taiwan by midweek with heavy rain, strong winds and flooding midweek, The Guardian reported.
School closures were announced in parts of the eastern county of Hualien, and evacuation orders issued in flood and landslide-prone areas, Taiwan's Central News Agency reported.
"Sierra Madre indeed weakened Uwan into a typhoon category upon landfall primarily because of the friction," Marcelino Villafuerte II, the deputy administrator for research and development with the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, told Philstar Global.
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