Typhoon Dolphin made landfall on China’s east coast, first striking Yuhuan in Zhejiang at 17:30 (09:30 GMT) with maximum winds of 150 km/h and then a second landfall near Wenzhou about an hour later, Chinese meteorological authorities said. Authorities evacuated more than 1 million people across eastern China, relocated about 900,000 residents in Wenzhou and moved roughly 390,000 people from Taizhou, while more than 1,000 emergency shelters were opened. The storm halted transport across the region, with Shanghai cancelling around 1,400 flights, and local governments closed major tourist sites including parts of Disneyland and Legoland and urged people to avoid outdoor activities. Forecasters warned of torrential rain, severe flooding and landslides through Wednesday, with parts of central and eastern Zhejiang forecast to receive 250 mm to 500 mm of rain as the system moved inland and was downgraded to a tropical storm by Monday morning. State media said Dolphin traversed roughly 6,000 km before landfall, giving it an unusually long lifespan, and CCTV described a massive circulation and intense rainfall capacity. Authorities reported one nine-year-old boy from Wenling, Zhejiang missing after being swept into the sea and said no fatalities had been confirmed in China; elsewhere Dolphin-linked weather killed eight people in the Philippines and injured five elderly people in Okinawa. State media also reported two people detained for spreading misinformation, including a 60-year-old who created an AI video falsely showing someone falling from a building during the storm.
