CNN News: 冬天在哪里

If you`re dreaming of a White Christmas, the dream may be as close as you get. `Tis the season for unseasonably mild temperatures in the U.S. With 321 million people, it`s the world`s third most populated country. Over the weekend, 75 percent of that population felt temperatures greater than 60 degrees Fahrenheit. That`s more like late September than mid- December. Meteorologists are blaming El Nino.

如果你夢想白色的圣誕節(jié)，那么你的夢想可能會實現(xiàn)。這種反常的現(xiàn)象在美國就可能會出現(xiàn)。美國有3.21億的人口，是世界上人口第三多的國家。在本周末，75%人感覺到溫度高于60華氏攝氏度。這溫度更像9月底的溫度。氣象學(xué)家把責任歸咎于厄爾尼諾。

It`s a natural phenomenon caused by warm temperatures over the Pacific Ocean, and it can affect weather patterns around the world, especially in the U.S. It`s keeping cold air bottled up in the Arctic, instead of spilling south.

厄爾尼諾是由太平洋上上空的暖氣流引起的自然現(xiàn)象。它會影響世界各地的天氣模式,尤其是在美國。厄爾尼諾現(xiàn)象會讓冷空氣盤旋在北極，而不會溢出到南部。

Nearly the entire country is asking the same question, where is winter? Who took it?

幾乎整個國家都在問同一個問題，冬天在哪里?誰把冬天拿走了?

That would be El Nino.

答案是厄爾尼諾現(xiàn)象。

That`s exactly what we`d expect in a very strong El Nino year. If we look back to 1982, 1997, what happened in those years, exactly this -- much warmer than normal temperatures across the eastern half of the United States.

這個就是厄爾尼諾年會出現(xiàn)的現(xiàn)象。如果我們查看1982、1997年，這些年發(fā)生的現(xiàn)象，比美國大部分地區(qū)東部的正常溫度要高。

Last year, Buffalo had "Snow-vember". This year, not a flake on the ground. And although January and February shape up the same above normal, above normal ，if your normal is 15, is still cold enough to make big snow.

去年，布法羅出現(xiàn)了11月下雪的現(xiàn)象。而今年，地面上一片雪花也沒有。雖然一月份和二月份的溫度都會高于正常溫度，但是如果正常是15，那么仍然足夠冷下起鵝毛大雪。

This is clearly an El Nino pattern, a very strong El Nino pattern. Warmer than normal across the north, cooler than normal across parts of the south, and still wetter than normal across the southwest.

這就是典型的厄爾尼諾現(xiàn)象類型，一種非常典型的厄爾尼諾現(xiàn)象。北部溫度高于正常溫度，而南部溫度低于正常溫度，而濕度要濕于西南地區(qū)的正常濕度。

But where`s winter?

但是現(xiàn)在冬天在哪里?

Right now, it`s nowhere to be found.

現(xiàn)在它無處可尋。