Typhoon Dolphin is forecast to make landfall along China's east coast from Sanmen in Zhejiang Province to Fuding in Fujian Province around Sunday evening to the early hours of Monday, according to the National Meteorological Center (NMC).
It issued a red alert -- the highest level in the country's typhoon warning system -- as the typhoon approaches.
As of 15:00 Sunday, the typhoon's center was about 110 km offshore east of Wenzhou City in Zhejiang, with maximum winds near the center reaching to Force 14 (41.5 - 46.1 meters per second) on the national wind scale, the NMC said.
From Sunday to Wednesday, regions of northern Fujian, Zhejiang, Shanghai, northern Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, eastern Hubei, central and eastern Henan, and southern Shandong will be hit by heavy downpours, with some areas in central-eastern Zhejiang and southern Anhui facing severe torrential rains.
Dolphin expected to land along east coast Sunday evening
