Typhoon Dolphin made landfall in eastern China, first striking Yuhuan in Zhejiang with maximum winds of 150 km/h at 17:30 (09:30 GMT) and making a second landfall near Wenzhou about an hour later, Chinese meteorological authorities said. Authorities evacuated more than one million people across the region; Wenzhou relocated roughly 900,000 residents and opened more than 1,000 emergency shelters while Taizhou moved about 390,000 people. The storm halted transportation across the region, with 1,400 flights cancelled in Shanghai, and local governments closed top tourist sites including parts of Shanghai Disneyland and Legoland. Forecasters warned of torrential rain through Wednesday, with parts of Zhejiang forecast to receive 250 mm to 500 mm and heavy rain expected in Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. By Monday morning authorities had downgraded Dolphin to a tropical storm as it moved inland but continued to warn of severe flooding and landslides. State media said Dolphin tracked about 6,000 km before landfall, giving it an unusually long lifespan and large circulation, and reported that two people were detained for spreading misleading storm footage online. The storm earlier brought deadly monsoon rains to the Philippines, where eight people died and more than 7,000 shelter at evacuation centres, and caused injuries in Okinawa and record high temperatures of 36.9C in Hong Kong as it swept warm air over the city.
