Typhoon Fung-Wong is expected to track towards Taiwan later this week after barrelling over the Philippines on Sunday night.

Heavy rain, destructive winds, powerful waves and a large storm surge battered parts of the Philippines on Sunday and Monday as Super Typhoon Fung-Wong – known as Uwan in the Philippines – passed over Luzon.

Fung-Wong was the second super typhoon in seven weeks to strike the Philippines, following Super Typhoon Ragasa (Nando) in late-September. It also comes less than a week after Typhoon Kalmaegi (Tino) crossed the central Philippines, causing more than 200 deaths in the country.

Image: Satellite images showing Super Typhoon Fung-Wong crossing the Philippines on Sunday night.

Fung-Wong cleared off the west coast of the Philippines on Monday, allowing the system to move away from the hindering friction of land and out over open water, into an environment more favourable for the system to re-intensify.

Typhoon Fung-Wong will gain strength over the warm South China Sea on Monday night into Tuesday as it moves towards the north, before eventually making another landfall in Taiwan late on Wednesday or early Thursday.

While Fung-Wong should still be classified as a typhoon when it reaches Taiwan later this week, it is expected to weaken before it approaches the country's west coast due to increasingly unfavourable atmospheric conditions.

Parts of Taiwan and southeastern China will experience heavy rain and potentially damaging winds between now and Thursday, with official severe weather advisories in place.