强烈飓风在美国和墨西哥造成数人死亡，并导致数千人断电，专家警告称今年的超强厄尔尼诺可能使风暴持续时间更长、破坏性更强。这一起源于太平洋、导致全球气温升高的气候现象已经扰乱了全球天气，助长了美洲地区的异常强烈风暴。“情况已经失控，”一位专家对美联社表示。
Powerful hurricanes killed several people and left thousands without power in the US and Mexico, as experts warned that this year’s supercharged El Niño risked making storms longer and more destructive. The climate phenomenon, which originates in the Pacific and leads to warmer global temperatures, has upended weather across the world, fueling extraordinary storms in the Americas. “It’s been berserk,” an expert told the Associated Press.
然而，在其他地区，今年创纪录的厄尔尼诺却带来了好消息：比往常更暖的冬季预测减轻了欧洲和亚洲经济体的压力——包括全球最大的几家液化天然气进口国——这些国家正努力应对因全球冲突扩大推动燃料价格上涨而导致的冬季能源账单飙升。
Elsewhere, however, this year’s record El Niño has been welcome news: Forecasts for a warmer-than-usual winter have eased pressures on European and Asian economies — including some of the world’s biggest LNG importers — which are scrambling to contain soaring winter energy bills as expanding global conflicts drive up fuel prices.