BEIJING: Typhoon Dolphin made landfall in densely-populated eastern China on Sunday, meteorological authorities said, after the storm triggered more than 1,000 flight cancellations, evacuations and a top-level alert.

China’s east coast has been preparing for the storm’s arrival in recent days, with work and transport services suspended in some areas along its predicted path.

The centre of the typhoon moved over the coastline near Yuhuan City in Zhejiang Province at about 5:30pm, China’s National Meteorological Centre said in an online post.

Maximum wind speeds near the centre were more than 150 kilometres per hour at the time it made landfall, the NMC said.

Nearly 1,400 flights in and out of Shanghai’s two main passenger airports were cancelled on Sunday, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

Hangzhou’s airport in nearby Zhejiang province saw 270 inbound and outbound flights cancelled, the report said.

The effects were felt as far away as Hong Kong on China’s southern coast, where the weather observatory posted a record high temperature of 36.9C, caused by warm air pushed over the city by Typhoon Dolphin.

With the storm “moving towards the vicinity of Zhejiang and moving inland, its outer subsiding air will persistently bring extremely hot weather to the territory today to Tuesday”, the Hong Kong Observatory said.

Published in Dawn, August 10th, 2026