Weather.com - 12/08/12, Bullit Marquez
Compostela Valley, Philippines.A rare cloud formation is seen amidst a destroyed banana plantation four days after Typhoon Bopha left hundreds of people killed and rendered extensive damage to agriculture at Montevista township, Compostela Valley in southern Philippines, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012. (Associated Press.)
NEW BATAAN, Philippines -- A typhoon that had left the Philippines after killing nearly 600 people and leaving hundreds missing in the south has made a U-turn and is now threatening the country's northwest as a tropical storm, officials said Saturday.
The weather bureau raised storm warnings over parts of the main northern island of Luzon after Bopha veered northeast. Bopha has weakened to a tropical storm, but it is moving close to shore and disaster officials warned of heavy rains and winds and possible landslides in the mountainous region.
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