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Storms from Typhoon Dolphin soak China's east, ground nearly 950 Shanghai flights

Cnbc · 🇨🇳 public China · · 568 words · By Reuters
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What to know about Storms from Typhoon Dolphin soak China's east, ground nearly 950 Shanghai flights

Torrential rain and storms in Typhoon Dolphin's wake inundated several provinces in China's east, drenching the coastal region and flooding streets in Shanghai, where around 40% of flights were grounded on Monday due to the weather.

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What happened

Torrential rain and storms in Typhoon Dolphin's wake inundated several provinces in China's east, drenching the coastal region and flooding streets in Shanghai, where around 40% of flights were grounded on Monday due to the weather.

Why it matters

Dolphin 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.

Common ground

Its remaining rain clouds continued to soak the eastern provinces including Anhui, Jiangsu and Shandong on Monday.

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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Claim 1: “TSR (Tropical Storm Risk) said it expected the 2026 northwest Pacific typhoon season to be one of the most active on record with 28 tropical storms, 20 typhoons and 13 intense typhoons.”
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Claim 2: “it made landfall in Zhejiang... on Sunday evening”
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Multiple sources, including The Guardian and a China Focus report, confirm the typhoon made landfall in Zhejiang on Sunday.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2015 Pacific typhoon season was a very active typhoon season that produced twenty-seven tropical storms (including two that crossed over from the Eastern/Central Pacific), eighteen typhoons, and n…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Pacific_typhoon_season
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of all airline codes. The table lists the IATA airline designators, the ICAO airline designators and the airline call signs (telephony designator). Historical assignments are also inclu…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Typhoon Dolphin was a powerful, large and very long-lived tropical cyclone that affected East China. The thirteenth named storm, fifth typhoon and third violent typhoon of the 2026 Pacific typhoon sea…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Dolphin_(2026)
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Claim 3: “Authorities in the capital Beijing raised warnings for torrential rain”
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No evidence was provided in the search results to confirm that Beijing authorities raised warnings for torrential rain.
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Claim 4: “Dolphin packed maximum sustained winds of 151 kph near its centre when it made landfall in Zhejiang”
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Two independent sources (The Guardian and another news report) confirm that Typhoon Dolphin had maximum sustained winds of 151 kph (or 94 mph) near its centre upon making landfall in Zhejiang.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2020 Pacific typhoon season was the first of a series of four below average Pacific typhoon seasons, and became the first with below-average tropical cyclone activity since 2014, with 23 named sto…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Pacific_typhoon_season
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web search NEUTRAL — Dolphin packed maximum sustained winds of 151km/ph near its centre when it made landfall in Zhejiang, the province to the south and west of Shanghai, yesterday evening before weakening to a tropical s…
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0810/1587211-typhoon-dolphin-ch…
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web search NEUTRAL — Dolphin made landfall near Yuhuan in Zhejiang province at about 5:30pm (0930 GMT) on Sunday, China’s meteorological authorities said. It brought maximum sustained winds of 94mph (151 km/h) near its ce…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/09/typhoon-dolphi…
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Claim 5: “In Shanghai's Jinshan, the district authority said non-essential businesses and organisations could temporarily halt operations, classes, outdoor events and transit services”
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A travel alert source specifically confirms that Jinshan authorities allowed non-essential businesses, organizations, classes, and transport services to halt operations.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jinshan authorities also allowed non-essential businesses and organizations to halt operations temporarily as strong winds and heavy rain continued, with classes, outdoor activities and transport serv…
https://travelohlic.com/shanghai-china-travel-alert-typhoon-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Authorities across Shanghai, Zhejiang, and Fujian have ramped up emergency measures as Typhoon Dolphin approaches China's eastern coast, with multiple cities in Zhejiang and Fujian suspending work, tr…
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202608/1367786.shtml
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web search NEUTRAL — Alibaba Cloud is one of the world's largest cloud computing companies, providing scalable, secure, and reliable cloud computing services globally to accelerate digitalization empowered by comprehensiv…
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Claim 6: “Shanghai, the country's second most populous city”
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Multiple sources directly contradict the claim. Wikipedia and other web results state that Shanghai is the MOST populous city in China, not the second most populous.
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web search NEUTRAL — Shanghai is a provincial-level direct-administered municipality in China. It has a population of 30,050,000 in the urban area as of 2026, thus making it China's most populous city and more broadly the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai
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web search NEUTRAL — Check out this incredible perspective of Shanghai, China, captured by a Planet satellite at a low angle. With more than 24 million residents, Shanghai is the most populous city in China and the second…
https://www.over-view.com/overviews/shanghai-low-angle
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web search NEUTRAL — 5 Most Populated China Cities. China Flag Shanghai.Tier III cities are not as developed as Tier II cities but many that fall into this category are considered to be economically significant. Tier IV a…
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Claim 7: “TSR said the ongoing strong El Niño event, high activity to date and weaker-than-normal trade winds across the northwest Pacific basin, were key reasons for the intensity of the typhoon season.”
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Claim 8: “The typhoon had already travelled 6,000 km (3,728 miles) before it made landfall”
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Claim 9: “Doksuri in 2023... crossed the country after causing destruction in southeastern Fujian province, unleashing record-breaking rainfall in Beijing.”
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Claim 10: “The city's two airports cancelled a total of 943 flights due to the typhoon”
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Three independent sources (Nikkei Asia, CCTV via web search, and another news report) confirm that Shanghai's two airports cancelled a total of 943 flights.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dalian ( dah-LYEN) is a major prefecture-level, sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang)…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Xue Zhiqian (Chinese: 薛之谦; pinyin: Xuē Zhīqiān, born July 17, 1983), also known professionally as Joker Xue, is a Chinese singer, songwriter, producer, and businessman. Known for his distinctive balla…
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web search NEUTRAL — Shanghai's two airports cancelled a total of 943 flights due to the typhoon.The strongest typhoon to hit China this year, Dolphin, is forecast to move deeper inland to the central provinces of Hubei a…
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0810/1587211-typhoon-dolphin-ch…
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Claim 11: “Powerful winds and lashing rain flipped over a truck in Zhejiang's Wenzhou”
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Two independent sources confirm that a truck was flipped/overturned in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, due to the typhoon's winds and rain.
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web search NEUTRAL — Corroborating visuals showed the overturned truck lying on the same location. The date of the footage was confirmed by official statement of Typhoon Dolphin’s landfall in Zhejiang province.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2snA1uJQpCA
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web search NEUTRAL — Typhoon Dolphin, the strongest tropical cyclone to hit China this year, made landfall on the eastern coast, bringing torrential rain and powerful winds. Footage from Wenzhou showed a truck being flipp…
https://www.hindustantimes.com/videos/typhoon-dolphin-strike…
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web search NEUTRAL — Torrential rain and storms in Typhoon Dolphin’s wake inundated several provinces in China’s east, drenching the coastal region and flooding streets in Shanghai, where around 40pc of flights were groun…
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/storms-from-typhoon-do…
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Claim 12: “Its remaining rain clouds continued to soak the eastern provinces including Anhui, Jiangsu and Shandong on Monday.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of weather forecasts for Maryland, USA, and unrelated Wikipedia entries. No evidence was found confirming the rain clouds' movement to Anhui, Jiangsu, and Shandong on Monday.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Events in the year 2010 in China.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Typhoon Bavi, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Inday, was an extremely powerful, large, and long-lived tropical cyclone that affected the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, the Philippines, Chin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Bavi_(2026)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Wuhan is the capital of Hubei, China. With a population of 13,861,900, it is the most populous city in Hubei and the seventh-most-populous city in China. It is also one of China's nine national centra…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan
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Claim 13: “Dolphin is forecast to move deeper inland to the central provinces of Hubei and Henan”
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While the claim is mentioned in the evidence for claim 5 (Storms from Typhoon Dolphin soak China's east), there are no other independent sources provided to corroborate the forecast for Hubei and Henan.
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Claim 14: “around 40% of flights were grounded on Monday due to the weather [in Shanghai]”
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Three independent web sources (Oman Observer, Al Jazeera, and another news report) explicitly state that around 40% of flights in Shanghai were grounded on Monday due to the weather.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Wuhan is the capital of Hubei, China. With a population of 13,861,900, it is the most populous city in Hubei and the seventh-most-populous city in China. It is also one of China's nine national centra…
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web search NEUTRAL — Torrential rain and storms in Typhoon Dolphin's wake inundated several provinces in China's east, drenching the coastal region and flooding streets in Shanghai, where around 40% of flights were ground…
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-905060
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