Typhoon Utor continues to churn the water across the South China Sea Tuesday night, local time, as it heads toward southeast China.
Utor slammed into the Philippines near the Casapsapan Bay early on Monday morning local time (Sunday afternoon EDT) as a powerful typhoon.
Utor was upgraded to a super typhoon on Sunday night local time when a distinctive eye developed on satellite imagery. Prior to Utor making landfall, AccuWeather.com meteorologists concluded that Utor had undergone some weakening and lost its super typhoon status.
The system weakened somewhat as it moved over the high terrain of western Luzon, but satellite imagery showed the storm becoming somewhat better organized on Monday afternoon as it emerged off the coast and back into open water.
At least four people have died and more remain missing across the northern Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Utor, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. The deaths included a man who was buried by a mudslide, a man who was trying to rescue his livestock from flood waters and two people that drown in flash flooding.
Manila escaped the worst of Utor but did see some wind and rain from the storm.
The brunt of the storm was focused farther north as the cities of Dagupan and Baguio recorded over 7.5 inches (190 mm).
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