Overview
- Typhoon Dolphin struck Zhejiang’s coast on Sunday with sustained winds around 151–162 km/h, prompting the China National Meteorological Centre to issue a red typhoon alert.
- Authorities ordered large-scale evacuations and moved offshore workers to safety, with reports of hundreds of thousands to around one million people relocated and rescue teams dispatched to frontline areas.
- Air and sea travel were halted or pared back, with Shanghai cancelling roughly 1,300–1,600 flights, Hangzhou grounding hundreds of services and more than 200 ferry routes suspended in Zhejiang and Fujian.
- Forecasters warned of torrential rainfall of about 200–500 mm in parts of Zhejiang and neighbouring provinces, raising the risk of river flooding, flash floods and landslides as the cyclone slows inland.
- Dolphin had already battered Okinawa and sent heavy bands over northern Taiwan before China landfall, and its slow inland track could prolong hazardous rain and disrupt ports, rail links and supply chains in coming days.