(UPDATES) THE state weather bureau on Saturday upgraded "Julian" (international name: Krathon) from a tropical depression to a tropical storm and said it could intensify to a typhoon by Monday.

As of 5 p.m. on Saturday, the weather bureau said Julian was 380 kilometers east of Aparri, Cagayan, with maximum sustained winds of 65 km per hour (kph) near the center and with gustiness of up to 90 kph and moving west-northwestward at 15 kph, as well a central pressure of 996 hectopascals. It was moving west-northwestward at 15 kph.

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