China Eastern Airlines trying to resume flights to Shanghai, Zhejiang, other destinations in \u2018orderly manner\u2019
\n Shanghai
\nTorrential rain and storms in Typhoon Dolphin\u2019s wake inundated several provinces in China\u2019s east, drenching the coastal region and flooding \u200cstreets in Shanghai, where around 40% of flights were grounded on Monday due to the weather.
\nDolphin packed maximum sustained winds of 151 kph near its centre when it made landfall in Zhejiang, the province to the south and west of Shanghai, on Sunday evening before weakening to a tropical storm.
\nIts remaining rain clouds continued to soak the eastern provinces, including \u200bAnhui, Jiangsu and Shandong on Monday.
\nMany streets in Shanghai, the country\u2019s second most populous city, were flooded, including in the main commercial centres.
\nThe \u200bcity\u2019s two airports cancelled a total of 943 flights due to the typhoon, reducing capacity by nearly 40%, state broadcaster CCTV said.
\nChina Eastern Airlines said on Monday it was trying to resume flights to Shanghai, Zhejiang and other destinations in an \u201corderly manner.\u201d
\nMany streets \u200bin Shanghai\u2019s suburban Jiading and Qingpu districts around the city centre remained waterlogged, according to live-streams shared by residents on social media. The live videos, not \u200bverified by Reuters, showed people wading through knee-high murky water.
\n\u201cIt rained almost all night last night. When I woke up this morning, I found the neighbourhood flooded, and the streets were severely flooded,\u201d said 39-year-old Hou Lina, who works in sales in Jiading in Shanghai.
\n\u201cI\u2019ve lived in Shanghai for 10 years, and this is the first time I\u2019ve \u200bexperienced such inconvenience from a typhoon. This is the first time I\u2019ve encountered such widespread flooding,\u201d she told Reuters.
\nIn Shanghai\u2019s Jinshan, the district authority \u200bsaid non-essential businesses and organisations could temporarily halt operations, classes, outdoor events and transit services, amid forecasts of continued strong winds and heavy rain on Monday.
\nPowerful winds and lashing \u200crain flipped over a truck in Zhejiang\u2019s Wenzhou, a video posted on TikTok on Sunday showed. It was not clear what happened to the driver.
\nRain and flood warnings for Beijing
\nThe strongest typhoon to hit China this year, Dolphin, is forecast to move deeper inland to the central provinces of Hubei and Henan in the coming days while also pushing moisture north.
\nAuthorities in the capital Beijing raised warnings for torrential rain and said the city was prepared to activate \u200bits flood control response on Tuesday \u200bmorning.
\nBeijing is expected to experience \u201csignificant rainfall\u201d from Tuesday until Thursday, with authorities warning of the risk of flash floods in the city and landslides in the surrounding mountainous areas.
\nThe typhoon had already travelled 6,000 km (3,728 miles) before it made landfall, giving it a life-cycle \u200bthree times longer than an ordinary typhoon, and bringing with it an ultra-large cloud system that enveloped China\u2019s \u200beast, CCTV said in another report.
\nDolphin\u2019s impact was also being compared to Doksuri in 2023. That typhoon crossed the country after destroying in southeastern Fujian province, unleashing record-breaking rainfall in Beijing.
\nAs the storm clouds meet colder air in the north, Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei will need to brace for heavy rain into Thursday, CCTV said.
\nTSR (Tropical Storm Risk) said it expected the \u200b2026 northwest Pacific typhoon season to be one of the most active on record with \u200b28 tropical storms, 20 typhoons and 13 intense typhoons.
\nTSR said the ongoing strong El Ni\u00f1o event, high activity to date and weaker-than-normal trade winds across the northwest Pacific basin were \u200bkey reasons for the intensity of the typhoon season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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