Typhoon Dolphin struck eastern China, including Shanghai, with winds reaching up to 150 kilometres per hour (93 miles per hour), forcing more than one million people to evacuate their homes. The storm made landfall in Yuhuan, Zhejiang province, at about 5:30pm (09:30 GMT) on Sunday, August 9th, 2026, according to China’s meteorological authorities.

The typhoon brought heavy rain and flooding, inundating provinces in eastern China and causing the risk of landslides. Parts of central and eastern Zhejiang province could receive between 250mm to 500mm (10 to 20 inches) of rain, forecasters said.

Authorities evacuated approximately 390,000 people in the Zhejiang city of Taizhou before Saturday evening. In Fujian province, about 98,900 people were evacuated from high-risk areas after officials raised the typhoon emergency response to Level III, the state news agency Xinhua reported.

The storm disrupted transportation, grounding about 40 percent of flights in Shanghai on Monday, August 10th, 2026. After making landfall late on Sunday, Dolphin weakened below cyclone strength and is forecast to continue weakening as it moves inland.

Wang Haiping, chief forecaster at the National Meteorological Centre, told state broadcaster CCTV that Dolphin is expected to track westwards, slow over central and southwestern China, and gradually lose strength.

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