A major typhoon, Dolphin, is approaching China’s densely populated eastern coastline, prompting authorities to issue their highest alert level. The storm has already caused over a thousand flight cancellations, evacuations, and transportation disruptions. China’s National Meteorological Center (NMC) issued a red typhoon alert—the highest warning level—early Sunday, warning of “extraordinary torrential rain” in parts of central and eastern Zhejiang. In Fujian, nearly 99,000 people had already been relocated from high-risk areas by Saturday evening in preparation for the storm. The arrival of Typhoon Dolphin comes just two weeks after Typhoon Noul, considered the strongest to hit southern Guangdong this year, caused three fatalities and damage to hundreds of homes in the Philippines before reaching China.