There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from tropical storm Melor, which hit the east coast of the main island of Luzon from the Pacific Ocean at 8:00 am (0000 GMT).

The storm packed maximum sustained winds of 115 kilometers (71.3 miles) an hour with gusts of up to 145 kilometers an hour. The eye was plotted over the northern province of Isabela at landfall, the bureau said.

It was moving northwest at 19 kilometers an hour and was expected to cross over into the South China Sea late Saturday.

Melor has a very large footprint and stormy weather enveloped 23 northern provinces, the bureau said.

Millions of Filipinos trooped to cemeteries Saturday, All Saints' Day, to honor their dead. The typhoon season in the Philippines usually ends in September.

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