Tropical Storm Dolphin moved through eastern China on Monday, delivering substantial rainfall and causing flooding in multiple locations following its transition from a typhoon the previous day. The system maintained maximum sustained winds of 65 kph in the morning while continuing to weaken, according to Taiwan’s Central Weather Administration. Chinese meteorological officials reported the storm was tracking northwest at speeds between 15 and 20 kilometers per hour and anticipated further deterioration until dissipation.
The system had made landfall Sunday evening in Taizhou within Zhejiang province with winds reaching 151 kph. Prior to impact, authorities executed a large-scale evacuation, relocating more than 300,000 residents to safety. Shanghai’s airport operations were significantly disrupted, with approximately 1,300 flights canceled across the city’s two facilities. In Yueqing, a Zhejiang municipality, rescue workers engaged in operations to assist residents trapped in inundated dwellings while removing debris from thoroughfares.
While the Philippines escaped direct impact, the system’s effects indirectly contributed to the region’s monsoon activity. Enhanced seasonal rains triggered flooding and mudslides across Luzon’s northern areas. A landslide in the mountain resort city of Baguio Sunday night buried three residential structures, resulting in five deaths and leaving at least five individuals unaccounted for. Search operations persisted Monday amid intermittent precipitation, with three people successfully extracted and hospitalized. The mudslide fatalities brought the cumulative death toll from nearly a week of heavy precipitation and storm activity in northern Luzon to 15 persons.
The broader weather event displaced approximately 98,000 residents from their homes, with roughly 58,000 seeking refuge in 642 government-operated emergency shelters. Overall, the precipitation and flooding affected more than one million individuals across the region. Concurrently, a separate system, Tropical Storm Chan-hom, approached Japan’s Pacific coastline with 83 kph winds Monday morning and was projected to intensify modestly before making landfall Tuesday into Wednesday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
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