Typhoon Dolphin weakens but disrupts travel in east China
Typhoon Dolphin has weakened after making landfall in China's Zhejiang province, but continues to cause significant travel disruptions and flooding. Authorities have evacuated over a million people and issued warnings for heavy rain and potential landslides across eastern and central regions.
Why it matters
Extreme weather events like Typhoon Dolphin demonstrate the ongoing vulnerability of infrastructure to climate-related disasters.
Typhoon Dolphin triggered a top-level alert over the weekend, prompting over 1,000 flight cancellations and over a million evacuations.
People walk through a flooded street after Typhoon Dolphin brought heavy rain to Shanghai, China, Aug 10, 2026. (Photo: Reuters/Go Nakamura)
BEIJING: The weakening Typhoon Dolphin brought heavy rain and grounded hundreds of flights on Monday (Aug 10) in eastern China, where authorities said more than a million people have been evacuated over the past few days.
The weather system has lost power after making two landfalls along the coast of Zhejiang province on Sunday, with China's National Meteorological Centre (NMC) issuing its least severe typhoon alert on Monday morning.
However, the NMC warned that parts of east and central China would continue to receive heavy rain for the next day.
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