Typhoon Dolphin Makes Landfall In China With 151 Kmph Winds After Battering Japan. Will It Impact India?

Published 9 August 2026 · india

News world Typhoon Dolphin Makes Landfall In China With 151 Kmph Winds After Battering Japan. Will It Impact India? Typhoon Dolphin Makes Landfall In China

News world Typhoon Dolphin Makes Landfall In China With 151 Kmph Winds After Battering Japan. Will It Impact India? Typhoon Dolphin Makes Landfall In China With 151 Kmph Winds After Battering Japan. Will It Impact India? Published By, Last Updated: August 09, 2026, 16:51 IST China's Meteorological Center said Dolphin could make landfall between Zhoushan in Zhejiang and Fuding in Fujian, bringing winds of up to 45 mps near its centre. Typhoon Dolphin battered Japan with winds of up to 216 kmph before making landfall on China's eastern coast, prompting evacuations and flood warnings. (IMAGE: REUTERS) Typhoon Dolphin, described as the most powerful tropical cyclone to hit China this year, made landfall on the country’s eastern coast on Sunday, bringing torrential rain and strong winds and triggering warnings of flooding and landslides. Dolphin made landfall near Yuhuan in Zhejiang province at around 5:30 pm local time, with maximum sustained winds of 42 metres per second (151 kmph) near its centre, China’s meteorological authorities said. The typhoon had earlier swept through Japan’s southern Okinawa prefecture, where it injured six people and left more than 50,000 buildings without power.

Over 1 Million Evacuated As Dolphin Hits China Authorities evacuated more than 1 million people across eastern China as Dolphin approached. Workers were moved from offshore facilities, vessels were ordered back to port and checks were intensified around reservoirs, mountain streams, construction sites and landslide-prone areas. Torrential rain is forecast through August 10 across Zhejiang, Shanghai, northern Fujian, northeastern Jiangxi, central and southern Anhui and much of Jiangsu. Parts of central and eastern Zhejiang could receive 250-500 mm of rain, according to forecasters. The storm is expected to track westward after landfall before slowing over central and southwestern China and gradually weakening. The slower movement could prolong heavy rainfall and increase the risk of flooding and landslides, particularly in mountainous areas and near smaller rivers. The storm has also disrupted transport across eastern China. Shanghai cancelled around 1,500 flights and evacuated at least 30,300 people, while Zhejiang’s Wenzhou relocated more than 900,000 residents and opened more than 1,000 emergency shelters. In Fujian, nearly 99,000 people were evacuated from high-risk areas.

Authorities also suspended 55 coastal passenger ferry routes, halted 115 offshore construction projects and moved hundreds of vessels to sheltered waters. Shanghai’s Yangshan port cleared ships from its berths and moved more than 500 small and medium-sized vessels to shelter ahead of the storm. So, Can Typhoon Dolphin Affect India’s Monsoon? Dolphin is not moving towards India, but its atmospheric influence could potentially extend much farther than the storm itself. A 2022 study published in Geophysical Research Letters, “A Dynamical Linkage Between Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclones and Indian Monsoon Low-Pressure Systems," found that tropical cyclones in the western North Pacific can influence the formation of low-pressure systems over the Bay of Bengal. The researchers found that disturbances linked to such cyclones can propagate westward as Rossby waves, contributing to the development of rain-producing systems over the Bay of Bengal. A separate 2024 study, “Causal Analysis Discovers an Enhanced Impact of Tropical Western Pacific on Indian Summer Monsoon Subseasonal Anomalies," also found a connection between tropical western Pacific activity and short-term variations in the Indian summer monsoon.