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.

如果你梦想白色的圣诞节，那么你的梦想可能会实现。这种反常的现象在美国就可能会出现。美国有3.21亿的人口，是世界上人口第三多的国家。在本周末，75%人感觉到温度高于60华氏摄氏度。这温度更像9月底的温度。气象学家把责任归咎于厄尔尼诺。

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.

厄尔尼诺是由太平洋上上空的暖气流引起的自然现象。它会影响世界各地的天气模式,尤其是在美国。厄尔尼诺现象会让冷空气盘旋在北极，而不会溢出到南部。

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

几乎整个国家都在问同一个问题，冬天在哪里?谁把冬天拿走了?

That would be El Nino.

答案是厄尔尼诺现象。

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.

这个就是厄尔尼诺年会出现的现象。如果我们查看1982、1997年，这些年发生的现象，比美国大部分地区东部的正常温度要高。

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，布法罗出现了11月下雪的现象。而今年，地面上一片雪花也没有。虽然一月份和二月份的温度都会高于正常温度，但是如果正常是15，那么仍然足够冷下起鹅毛大雪。

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.

这就是典型的厄尔尼诺现象类型，一种非常典型的厄尔尼诺现象。北部温度高于正常温度，而南部温度低于正常温度，而湿度要湿于西南地区的正常湿度。

But where`s winter?

但是现在冬天在哪里?

Right now, it`s nowhere to be found.

现在它无处可寻。