 Nancy was a straight @-@ running typhoon which moved steadily westward across the northern Philippines south of Hainan Island into northern Vietnam . Tropical Depression 25 behaved similarly to Tropical Depression 22 , moving northwest well east of the Philippines and south of Japan in mid October . Typhoon Owen meandered well to the southeast of Japan in mid and late October . Pamela moved generally westward across the central Philippines as a typhoon in early December . Roger was the last tropical cyclone of the season , and it moved northward along the northeast side of the Philippines in mid December before dissipating southeast of Taiwan . 
