00:00Tropical Storm Dolphin dumped heavy rain in eastern China on Monday, causing flooding and forcing authorities to cancel hundreds of
00:09flights.
00:09According to the Shanghai Airport Group, more than 900 flights, or about 40% of those expected, were cancelled in
00:18Shanghai's airports, after about 1,300 were earlier cancelled on Sunday.
00:23State media reported Shanghai also suspended some of its metro lines and China Railway Group suspended some 115 trains.
00:33Dolphin made landfall Sunday evening in the Xinjiang province with winds of 151 km per hour after bringing heavy rain
00:42to northern Taiwan over the weekend.
00:44The storm had forced at least 760,000 people to preemptively relocate in the region, including over 390,000 in
00:54Taizhou.
00:55Moving northwest at 15 to 20 km per hour, Dolphin was expected to continue weakening, according to the Chinese weather
01:02authorities.
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