CNN News: 夏季來臨 美國部分地區(qū)也開始受風暴影響

While we were on the subject of seasons, the Atlantic hurricane season typically runs from June 1st through November 30th. But as we’ve said before, these storms don’t always follow the calendar, and the good example of that was spinning in the Gulf of Mexico as we produced the show.

我們討論季節(jié)時，大西洋颶風季節(jié)通常從6月1日持續(xù)到11月30日。但正如我們之前說過的，這些風暴并不總是遵循日歷，在我們制作這個節(jié)目的時候，風暴正在墨西哥海灣旋轉(zhuǎn)。

Alberto is the first named storm of 2018. It was travelling north through the gulf Sunday night and it made landfall on Monday afternoon in Florida.

阿爾貝托是2018年第一個被命名的風暴。它于周日晚上穿過海灣向北移動，并于周一下午在佛羅里達登陸。

Alberto was classified yesterday as a subtropical storm. Characteristics include sustained wind speeds of almost 65 miles per hour, and these winds can blow further from the center of the system than they usually do with the tropical storm. So, the three states most likely to be affected:

阿爾貝托昨天被列為亞熱帶風暴。其特征包括持續(xù)風速接近每小時65英里，這些風可以從比通常的熱帶風暴吹更遠。因此，最可能影響的三個州是:

Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi have declared states of emergency to speed up help to those who need it.

阿拉巴馬州、佛羅里達州和密西西比州已經(jīng)宣布進入緊急狀態(tài)，以加速幫助那些需要幫助的人。

Alberto’s dangers included tornadoes, a storm surge, when coastal sea levels rise as winds blow water ashore, and especially flooding. And though the storm has relatively early in the season, meteorologists say its formation doesn’t necessarily mean that this year’s hurricane season will be as busy as last year’s. These seasons are hard to predict and the National Hurricane Center says it expects this year’s to be near or above normal.

阿爾貝托造成的危險包括龍卷風，風暴潮，以及沿海海平面上升，風吹向海岸，會造成洪水。雖然風暴在季節(jié)的早期出現(xiàn)，氣象學家說它的形成并不一定意味著今年的颶風季節(jié)會像去年一樣頻繁。這些季節(jié)很難預測，國家颶風中心預計今年的颶風將接近或高于正常水平。

Alberto isn’t the only weather event that’s causing trouble for the U.S. And in a short of period on Sunday, more than nine inches of rain fell on some parts of the eastern state of Maryland. This caused the Patapsco River to rise almost 18 feet and the flooding was tremendous.

阿爾貝托并不是唯一一個給美國帶來麻煩的氣象事件。在僅僅在周日一天內(nèi)，美國東部馬里蘭州的一些地區(qū)降水量超過9英寸。這使得帕塔斯科河漲了近18英尺，洪水泛濫。

Ellicott City, where our next report takes place, was hit by flooding two years ago that turned it into a warzone, as one local official described, the same official says what’s happening there now is much worse.

我們下一篇報道的發(fā)生地埃利科特城，兩年前遭受這里洪水襲擊，變成了戰(zhàn)區(qū)，正如一位當?shù)毓賳T所描述的，那里現(xiàn)在的情況要糟糕得多。