气象预报员称，美国多个州的数千万人口可能会受到这场初秋东北风暴的影响。周五，随着被视为今年秋季首场“重大”东北风暴的恶劣天气开始袭扰新英格兰，大风和暴雨威胁着数百万人的周末计划。
Forecasters say up to 40 million people in multiple US states could be affected by the early season northeasterly storm High winds and heavy rain were beginning to batter New England on Friday as a “significant” nor’easter, the first such storm of the fall, threatened to disrupt weekend plans for millions.
与此同时，在太平洋上，三个不同的飓风正在翻滚，其中一个飓风威胁着给夏威夷带来包括致命山洪在内的“灾难性洪水”，此时创纪录的厄尔尼诺现象继续在全球范围内加剧极端天气事件。
In the Pacific Ocean, meanwhile, three separate hurricanes, one threatening “catastrophic flooding”, including life-threatening flash floods, in Hawaii, were churning as a record-setting El Niño continued to amplify severe weather events on a global scale.