PAGASA: Mindulle intensifies into typhoon outside PAR

PAGASA reports that Mindulle has intensified into a typhoon outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility.

As of Saturday morning, it was located 1,720 kilometers east of Northern Luzon with maximum sustained winds of 120 km/h and gustiness up to 150 km/h.

Mindulle is expected to reach peak intensity by Monday, September 27, before moving northwest or north northwest until Wednesday, September 29, then turning north northeast by Thursday, September 30.