Overview
- Dolphin made landfall in Zhejiang with winds near 151 km/h on Aug. 9 and forced large-scale evacuations of more than one million people from eastern provinces.
- The storm weakened as it moved inland but its vast moisture plume has smashed single-day rainfall records in Hubei and Henan and put Beijing on an orange rainstorm alert.
- Authorities closed tourist sites, suspended construction and transit services, and carried out targeted reservoir and community evacuations to reduce flood and landslide risk.
- Ports and logistics hubs in Shanghai and Ningbo shut for days, creating a multi-day backlog that Linerlytica estimates has left roughly 2.4 million TEUs stranded across North Asia.
- Meteorologists link the hyperactive western Pacific and emerging El Niño–like circulation to wider shifts in regional weather, and officials have moved to police alleged flood-related misinformation online.