Shanghai, China - Typhoon Dolphin made landfall in densely populated eastern China on Sunday, meteorological authorities said, after the storm triggered mass evacuations and flight cancellations.
China's east coast has been preparing for the storm's arrival in recent days, with work and transport services suspended in some areas along its predicted path.
The center of the typhoon moved over the coastline near Yuhuan City in Zhejiang Province at about 5:30 PM on Sunday, China's National Meteorological Center (NMC) said in an online post.
Maximum wind speeds near the storm's center were more than 94 miles per hour at the time it made landfall, the NMC said.
Nearly 1400 flights in and out of Shanghai's two main passenger airports were canceled on Sunday, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Hangzhou's airport in nearby Zhejiang province saw 270 inbound and outbound flights canceled.
The effects were felt as far away as Hong Kong on China's southern coast, where the weather observatory posted a record high temperature of 98.42 degrees Fahrenheit, caused by warm air pushed over the city by Typhoon Dolphin.
With the storm "moving towards the vicinity of Zhejiang and moving inland, its outer subsiding air will persistently bring extremely hot weather to the territory today to Tuesday," the Hong Kong Observatory said.
China's 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.
In Fujian, nearly 99,000 people were relocated from "risky areas" on Saturday evening ahead of the storm's arrival, state news agency Xinhua reported.
Work at offshore projects was halted, while 474 construction vessels had been called to port by Friday morning, Xinhua said.
Some train services in affected areas were also suspended on Sunday to ensure passenger safety, state media reported.