Overview
- Typhoon Dolphin struck Okinawa on Saturday, injuring several people, cutting power to thousands of buildings and grounding hundreds of flights as authorities opened shelters and issued evacuation orders.
- Japanese officials ordered nearly 260,000 residents in Kagoshima and Okinawa to evacuate and suspended major transport links while companies such as Toyota halted factory operations to protect supply chains.
- China's meteorological and provincial authorities raised coastal alerts, closed ports, suspended ferry routes and moved ships to safety as forecasters predicted a likely landfall between Zhoushan (Zhejiang) and Fuding (Fujian) late Sunday into Monday.
- Forecasters warn Dolphin's broad wind field and slow forward motion could produce linear rain bands — narrow corridors of intense thunderstorms — that may trigger flash floods and landslides, a particular danger for areas weakened by the July 28 earthquake.
- Officials are using drones, AI forecasting and elevated emergency-response teams to track the storm and stage rescues, and residents should expect prolonged power outages, disrupted transport and local shortages in affected islands and coastal provinces.