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Typhoon Dolphin could slam coastal China with feet of rain from Sunday into Monday after it first swept across Okinawa on Friday.
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00:00Typhoon Dolphin is a very strong typhoon moving through the West Pacific right now.
00:05It crossed far southern Japan in the Okinawa Prefecture with 105 mile per hour max sustained winds at the end
00:13of the work week.
00:13Now it's moving toward southeast China and it will likely still be a typhoon when it makes landfall at the
00:21beginning of the new week, Sunday into Monday.
00:24We're going to be dealing with very heavy rain and fierce wind in areas south of Shanghai.
00:30You can see that we're going to be dealing with gusts of 80 to 100 miles per hour in portions
00:34of the Chinese coast after we already experienced 100 to 120 mile per hour gusts in parts of Okinawa.
00:41Beyond the wind and a fierce storm surge, we're dealing with flooding rainfall.
00:4612 to 18 inches of rain are expected in southeast China and our AccuWeather local storm acts of up to
00:52three feet could be reached in some of the hardest hit areas.
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