Typhoon Dolphin, which made two landfalls along the coast of Zhejiang province on Sunday, has weakened but continues to impact eastern China with heavy rain and travel disruptions on Monday, August 10, 2026.

China's National Meteorological Centre (NMC) downgraded its typhoon alert to the least severe level on Monday morning but warned that parts of east and central China would still experience heavy rainfall for the following day. Authorities issued the most severe flash flood alert for parts of eastern and southern Zhejiang, according to state broadcaster CCTV.

The storm caused hundreds of flight cancellations, including 943 at Shanghai's two main passenger airports. Public transport services, including many local trains, were suspended in Shanghai but began resuming in some areas. The provincial capital Hangzhou reinstated subway services on Monday morning after halting some train operations on Sunday.

Zhejiang's Ningbo international airport planned to resume flight operations from midday (12pm Singapore time) but cautioned that delays and cancellations might persist as the typhoon's effects had not fully dissipated.

Over the past few days, authorities evacuated more than one million people in eastern China as a precaution. Typhoon Dolphin triggered a top-level alert over the weekend, leading to over 1,000 flight cancellations and tens of thousands of evacuations. This storm followed Typhoon Noul, which struck southern Guangdong province two weeks earlier and was previously considered the strongest storm to hit China this year.

Our correspondent Jan Camenzind Broomby reports on the ongoing situation.

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