CNN News: 弗洛倫斯颶風

Thank you for downloading, streaming or just plain watching CNN 10. I’m Carl Azuz explaining world news from the CNN Center. First today, get away from the coast. That’s what a Americans in the U.S. Southeast are being told as a monster storm brews in the Atlantic Ocean. It’s name is Hurricane Florence. It’s already triggered mandatory evacuation orders for more than 1 million people in the states of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. And Florence is uniquely dangerous. For one thing it’s powerful. Its wind speeds hovered around 140 miles per hour Tuesday.

感謝您下載，流媒體或收看CNN 10。我是卡爾·阿祖茲，在CNN中心為您播報世界新聞。今日頭條新聞，遠離海岸。這就是美國東南部的大西洋正在醞釀一場巨大的風暴。它的名字是弗洛倫斯颶風。北卡羅萊納、南卡羅萊納和維吉尼亞州的100多萬人已被強制疏散。弗洛倫斯颶風異常危險。首先，颶風很強大。周二，風速約為每小時140英里。

That makes Florence a Category 4 hurricane. That makes Florence strong enough to blow the roofs off houses, knock down walls, snap most trees, take out power. The area it hits could be uninhabitable for months. For another it’s storm surge could be catastrophic. This is the abnormal rise in sea levels as a hurricane blows water ashore. A CNN meteorologist says Hurricane Florence could bring a 20 foot storm surge. That would make the tide 20 feet higher than it normally is as Florence blows in.

這使弗洛倫斯成為4級颶風。颶風，可以掀翻房屋的屋頂，推倒墻壁，折斷大部分的樹木，切斷電力。受襲擊的地區(qū)可能幾個月無法居住。另一方面，風暴潮可能是災難性的。由于颶風將海水吹向海岸而導致海平面上升異常。美國有線電視新聞網(wǎng)氣象學家表示，佛羅倫薩颶風可能帶來20英尺的風暴潮。這樣一來，當弗洛倫斯吹進來的時候，潮水就會比平時高出20英尺。

The National Hurricane Center says anything more than a 12 foot storm surge is life threatening. Third, scientists tracking this storm predict it will slow down after it makes landfall. That’s a major problem as far as flooding is concerned. Last years Hurricane Harvey was a slow moving storm. It poured rain on Houston, Texas for more than a week and that caused scenes like this. Predicting exactly what storms like Florence will do is still like predicting the weather. There’s uncertainty about it. This hurricane’s wind speeds fluctuated Tuesday. Forecasters didn’t agree on whether it would still be a Category 4 storm at landfall, if it would get stronger or weaker before it blows ashore. But here’s how things looked yesterday afternoon.

國家颶風中心表示，任何超過12英尺的風暴潮都會威脅生命。第三，追蹤這場風暴的科學家預測，它登陸后將會減速。就洪水而言，這是一個主要問題。去年哈維颶風是一場緩慢移動的風暴。大雨在德克薩斯州的休斯頓持續(xù)了一個多星期，引發(fā)了這樣的場景。準確地預測像弗洛倫斯這樣的風暴會做什么，就像預測天氣一樣。同時也存在不確定性。星期二，颶風的風速波動。天氣預報員沒有就登陸時是否仍然是4級風暴達成一致，因為尚不確定風暴在登陸前是否會變得更強或更弱。但昨天下午的情況如下。