得克萨斯州今年夏天遭遇了干旱，周三的降雨可能会像水倒在水泥地上一样，直接从干旱的土地上流走。
Texas had a dry summer, and rain on Wednesday could run off the arid ground like water on concrete.
周三，一场在墨西哥登陆的飓风带来的降雨正威胁着得克萨斯州那些数月未曾经历大雨甚至滴雨未下的干旱地区。美国中部的其他一些地区，包括科罗拉多州、堪萨斯州和艾奥瓦州的部分地区，也面临着强降雨的威胁，这可能引发突发性洪灾。
Rain from a hurricane that made landfall in Mexico was threatening on Wednesday to inundate drought-stricken parts of Texas that haven’t seen heavy rain, or any rain, in months. Other pockets of the Central United States, including parts of Colorado, Kansas and Iowa, also faced the threat of heavy rain, which could lead to flash flooding.
本周的一次新闻发布会上，得克萨斯州州长格雷格·阿博特表示，由于飓风“波洛”本周两次在墨西哥西海岸登陆（距离预计受风暴袭击的得州部分地区约500英里），向该地区输送了大量水汽，官员们已在全州部署了抢险队伍和设备。阿博特州长警告称，强降雨可能导致洪水和河水上涨。
At a news conference this week, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said officials had positioned crews and equipment across the state ahead of moisture sent into the region from Hurricane Polo, which made landfall twice this week on Mexico’s western coast — about 500 miles from the parts of Texas expected to be hit by storms. Governor Abbott cautioned that heavy rain could lead to flooding and rising rivers.
他说：“我们将尽一切可能，确保我们能够安然度过这场特大暴雨灾害，不造成人员伤亡。”
“We’ll do everything possible so that we can make it through this very heavy rain event with no loss of life,” he said.
根据美国国家气象局的数据，在记录官方气象数据的达拉斯沃思堡国际机场，从7月16日到9月20日滴雨未下，这长达67天的无有效降水期并列排在历史第二长纪录。
At Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, where official weather records are taken, no rain fell from July 16 to Sept. 20, a 67-day stretch that tied for the second-longest period without measurable precipitation, according to the National Weather Service.
根据美国干旱监测机构的数据，达拉斯县超过43%的地区正经历极端干旱，这是干旱条件的最高级别。
More than 43 percent of Dallas County is experiencing an exceptional drought, the highest category of drought conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
周三的天气是美国中部平原上空空气团的典型交汇，它在午后和傍晚引发了风暴和强降雨。这些暴雨还可能带来龙卷风、冰雹和破坏性大风，这种天气模式不仅出现在春末，也会在夏秋过渡时再次出现。
The weather on Wednesday is a classic collision of colliding air masses colliding across the Central Plains, setting off storms and outbursts of rain in the afternoons and evenings. Those outbursts can also bring tornadoes, hail and damaging winds, a pattern that also occurs in late spring but occurs again as summer transitions to fall.
使这个天气系统更加强劲的是来自“波洛”残余气流的水汽注入，这些水汽将于周三飘入得克萨斯州。
What makes this system more potent is an influx of moisture from the remnants of Polo, which will drift into Texas on Wednesday.
在接下来的两天里，最强烈的降雨将集中在从墨西哥边境延伸至俄克拉荷马州的中部德克萨斯地区。这些风暴将首先在西部开始，然后逐渐向东移动。
Over the next two days, the heaviest rainfall is expected in a band stretching across Central Texas from the Mexican border and into Oklahoma. The storms will begin in the west and slowly shift east.
暴雨可能在短时间内降下多达五英寸的雨水，从而引发严重的山洪暴发风险。当雨水落在干燥的土壤上时，雨水会像流过混凝土表面一样迅速流失，而无法被土壤吸收，这进一步加剧了洪水的威胁。
Downpours could drop up to five inches of rain in a short period, creating a severe risk of flash flooding. When water hits the dry soil, it will run off as if the ground were concrete rather than soaking in, heightening the threat of floods.
应急管理部门还对科罗拉多州东南部的持续降雨表示担忧：由于连日的降雨，该地区的土壤已经处于饱和状态，这可能会引发更多的洪水。
Emergency managers were also concerned about the lingering rainfall over southeastern Colorado, where the ground was saturated from days of rain and could fuel more flooding.
这个风暴系统的影响范围非常广泛，它还将湿气带到了北部平原地区；包括爱荷华州、内布拉斯加州和堪萨斯州在内的“玉米带”也可能面临洪水的威胁。
The storm system is large enough that it is also spreading moisture into the Northern Plains, where a flood threat was also possible in the Corn Belt, which includes parts of Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas.
在最新的降雨之前，随着风暴系统向西南部移动，新墨西哥州和德克萨斯州已经收到了多份山洪暴发和龙卷风的预警。虽然目前还没有大规模破坏的报告，但美国国家气象局在部分地区降雨量超过三英寸的情况下，呼吁民众密切关注应急部门的通知。
Before the latest rain, a flurry of flash flood and tornado warnings hit New Mexico and Texas on Tuesday as the weather system moved through the Southwest. There were no reports of widespread damage, but some of the warnings included pleas by the National Weather Service for people to pay attention to emergency officials’ messages as more than three inches of rain fell in some areas.
在新墨西哥州，问题并不在于干旱地区的降雨，而在于那些上周就已经受到风暴影响的地区。该州最大的机场——阿尔伯克基国际机场本月至今已降雨4.49英寸，创下了自1891年有降雨记录以来最潮湿的九月。
In New Mexico, the problem was not significant rainfall on drought-stricken land, but rather on areas that were already saturated from storms last week. Albuquerque International Sunport, the state’s biggest airport, has had 4.49 inches of rain this month so far, making it the wettest September since recordings started in 1891.
官员们表示，周二的暴雨使得新墨西哥州南部有三座水坝有可能发生溃坝，因此部分居民已被要求撤离。
Tuesday’s storms caused concerns that three dams could fail in southern New Mexico, officials said, leading to evacuation orders for some residents.
美国国家气象局埃尔帕索办公室的高级气象学家蒂姆·布赖斯（Tim Brice）指出，该州南部地区的年降雨量通常约为八英寸。
The southern part of the state typically gets about eight inches of rain a year, said Tim Brice, a senior meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in El Paso.
但他说，周二时，新墨西哥州拉斯克鲁塞斯附近地区降下了大约一到三英寸的雨量，促使官员们担心水坝可能会溢流，并导致附近的小城镇和农田发生洪水。
But on Tuesday, an area near Las Cruces, N.M., received about one to three inches of rain, he said, prompting officials to worry that a dam could overrun and cause flooding across nearby small cities and agricultural land.
“这很不正常，”象山灌溉区（Elephant Butte Irrigation District）首席财务官乔亚·弗兰佐伊（Joah Franzoy）说。
“This is not normal,” said Joah Franzoy, the chief financial officer for Elephant Butte Irrigation District.
同样在新墨西哥州，由于恶劣天气，多纳安娜县对林肯、哈奇、塞勒姆和加菲尔德等城市发出了疏散令，这些城市的人口均少于2000人。
Also in New Mexico, Doña Ana County issued evacuation orders for the cities of Rincon, Hatch, Salem and Garfield, each populated by fewer than 2,000 people, because of the weather.
埃琳·麦卡恩（Erin McCann）是《纽约时报》气象团队的副主编。她常驻旧金山。
Erin McCann is the deputy editor for The Times’s Weather team. She is based in San Francisco.
赫苏斯·希门尼斯（Jesus Jiménez）是《纽约时报》报道北得克萨斯州的记者。他常驻达拉斯。
Jesus Jiménez is a Times reporter covering North Texas. He is based in Dallas.
伊沙尼·德赛（Ishani Desai）是一名报道突发新闻及其他话题的记者，也是旨在培养新闻业早期人才的2026-27年度《纽约时报》奖学金项目的成员。
Ishani Desai is a reporter covering breaking news and other topics, and a member of the 2026-27 Times Fellowship, a program for journalists early in their careers.