Overview
- Dolphin made landfall near Yuhuan in Zhejiang with sustained winds of about 151 km/h on Sunday, prompting more than one million people to be evacuated from eastern China.
- The storm has weakened in wind speed but retains a vast cloud field that produced record 24‑hour rains in Shanghai and is driving heavy rain into Hubei where orange and yellow rainfall alerts and suspensions of tourist sites and high‑risk construction are in force.
- Authorities and transport operators have halted services across the region with more than 900 Shanghai flights canceled, metro lines suspended and dozens of trains stopped, leaving major travel disruption.
- Weather tied to Dolphin intensified the seasonal monsoon in the Philippines, causing floods and landslides that killed multiple people and displaced tens of thousands.
- Meteorologists say a hyperactive, El Niño‑like Pacific is shifting tropical convection eastward in ways that have already reduced monsoon cloud cover over the Bay of Bengal and could either further suppress India's monsoon or, if Pacific disturbances track west, seed new lows over the bay—outcomes remain uncertain.