The remnants of Typhoon Dolphin, the strongest typhoon to strike China this year, have driven torrential rainfall deep into northern and central China, prompting large-scale evacuations in Beijing and triggering the highest-level red alert in Henan province (a densely populated region in central China). Authorities in Beijing evacuated thousands of residents from flood- and landslide-prone areas, shut hundreds of tourist sites, and suspended 250 bus routes, while neighbouring Hebei province deployed hundreds of emergency teams to mountainous villages. The storm is part of a pattern of intensifying extreme weather that scientists attribute to climate change, compounded this year by El Niño conditions driving record-breaking rainfall across the region.