By The Straits Times | Created at 2026-08-10 06:21:46 | Updated at 2026-08-10 06:51:18
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BEIJING/SHANGHAI - Torrential rain and storms in Typhoon Dolphin’s wake have swept through several provinces in China’s east, drenching the coastal region and flooding streets in Shanghai, the country’s second most populated city.
Dolphin packed maximum sustained winds of 151kmh near its centre when it made landfall in Zhejiang, the province to the south and west of Shanghai, on the evening of Aug 9 before weakening to a tropical storm.
Its remaining rain clouds continued to soak the eastern provinces including Anhui, Jiangsu and Shandong on Aug 10.
Many streets in the suburban Jiading and Qingpu districts around Shanghai’s city centre remained waterlogged on the morning of Aug 10, according to livestreams shared by residents on social media. The live videos, not verified by Reuters, showed people wading through knee-high murky water.
Shanghai’s two airports cancelled a total of 943 flights due to the typhoon, reducing capacity by nearly 40 per cent on Aug 10, state broadcaster CCTV said.
Powerful winds and lashing rain flipped over a truck in Zhejiang’s Wenzhou, a video posted on TikTok on Aug 9 showed. It was not clear what happened to the driver.
The strongest typhoon to hit China this year, Dolphin is forecast to move deeper inland to the central provinces of Hubei and Henan in the coming days while also pushing moisture north.
Authorities in the capital Beijing raised warnings for torrential rain and said the city was prepared to activate its flood control response on the morning of Aug 11.
The typhoon had already travelled 6,000km before it made landfall, giving it a lifecycle three times longer than an ordinary typhoon, and bringing with it an ultra-large cloud system that enveloped China’s east, CCTV said in another report.
Dolphin’s impact was also being compared to Doksuri in 2022. That typhoon crossed the country after causing destruction in south-eastern Fujian province, unleashing record-breaking rainfall in Beijing.
As the storm clouds meet colder air in the north, Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei will need to brace for rains into Aug 13, CCTV said. REUTERS
