China cancels flights, issues evacuation orders as Typhoon Dolphin makes landfall

More than 1,000 flights to and from China's eastern coast were cancelled on Sunday as authorities issued a top-level alert ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Dolphin. Typhoon Dolphin has already swept through Japan's southern Okinawa prefecture, injuring six people and cutting power ​to more than 50,000 ‌buildings. Before its landfall in the southeastern Chinese city of Yuhuan on Sunday, authorities moved offshore workers to safety, ordered vessels back to port and ⁠increased checks at reservoirs, mountain streams, landslide-prone areas, construction sites and tourist locations. Nearly 1,400 flights in and out of Shanghai's two main passenger airports had been cancelled, state broadcaster CCTV reported. Hangzhou's airport in nearby Zhejiang province saw 270 inbound and outbound flights cancelled, the report said. China's National Meteorological Centre (NMC) issued a red typhoon alert – its most severe warning – on Sunday morning, forecasting "extraordinary torrential rain" in some areas of central and eastern Zhejiang. Heavy precipitation is also expected to fall in Shanghai and parts of Fujian, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces through Monday afternoon, the NMC said. After Typhoon Dolphin ...