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Typhoon Dolphin hits China, over 1 million evacuated
Typhoon Dolphin made landfall in eastern China on Sunday, forcing the evacuation of over 1 million people. The storm struck Zhejiang Province near Yuhuan City with winds exceeding 150 kmph, triggering a…
The Story in Brief
Typhoon Dolphin made landfall in eastern China on Sunday, forcing the evacuation of over 1 million people. The storm struck Zhejiang Province near Yuhuan City with winds exceeding 150 kmph, triggering a top-level red alert. Nearly 1,400 flights were cancelled in Shanghai alone, and another 270 at Hangzhou airport. More than 200 ferry routes in Zhejiang and Fujian were suspended.
The storm made a second landfall in Wenzhou about an hour later. The Times of India reported that Dolphin was downgraded to a tropical storm by Monday morning, but authorities warned of torrential rain, flooding and landslides through Wednesday across several provinces. Before reaching China, the typhoon injured seven people in Japan's Okinawa and caused power cuts to over 5,000 households.
The Indian Opinion
Chinese efficiency in evacuating a million people is rightly praised, but the narrative that this is just another routine storm misses the larger pattern. Two typhoons in a month, with Dolphin following Noul, shows the increasing frequency of extreme weather in East Asia. The real test is not how many are evacuated but how often these red alerts become necessary. Is the government admitting that climate change is making its coastal defences costlier to maintain? Watch the rainfall totals in Zhejiang this week for the true measure of damage.
Sources (2): timesnownews.com, timesofindia.indiatimes.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above.
