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0What's going on with the weather?|Newsround
First to Dubai, where the weather normally looks like this. But instead, this is what the city looks like after a record-breaking storm this week. The UAE, a country in the Middle East, had a year's worth of rain in just one day, flooding roads and buildings, including Dubai's airport, which is the second busiest in the world. Eight-year-old Iris lives in the city with her family and told us what it's been like.
首先到迪拜，那里的天气通常是这样的。但相反，这是这座城市在本周破纪录的风暴之后的样子。中东国家阿联酋仅仅一天就下了一年的降雨量，导致道路和建筑物被淹，其中包括世界第二繁忙的迪拜机场。八岁的艾里斯和她的家人住在城里，她向我们讲述了这座城市的感受。
Hi everyone, my name is Iris, I live in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dubai is normally so hot that I get to go to the pool, I get to go to the beach, I get to go camping in the deserts and mountains.
大家好，我叫艾里斯。我住在阿拉伯联合酋长国迪拜。迪拜通常很热，我可以去游泳池，可以去海滩，可以去沙漠和山区露营。
Dubai has seen the worst rain over 75 years. Hail stones the size of tennis balls. People's houses have been flooded, their cars have been washed away, including my house. The rain leaks through my window but luckily we managed to mop it away with towels. Today the weather is sunny and warm again but lots of people are affected. Roads are closed and people can't get around. It's likely school will be closed for the rest of the week, I just hope the people badly affected are okay.
迪拜遭遇75年来最严重的降雨。网球大小的冰雹。人们的房子被淹没了，他们的汽车被冲走了，包括我的房子。雨水从我的窗户漏进来，但幸运的是我们设法用毛巾把它擦掉。今天天气再次晴朗温暖，但很多人受到影响。道路被封闭，人们无法出行。学校可能会在本周剩余时间关闭。我只希望那些受到严重影响的人们都没事。
Thanks, Iris. Well, as we know, the weather has been a bit unusual here in the UK too. Someone whose job it is to predict unpredictable conditions this week is BBC weather reporter, Abby Dewhurst, who centres this.
谢谢，艾丽丝。嗯，据我们所知，英国的天气也有点不寻常。英国广播公司(BBC)气象记者艾比·杜赫斯特(Abby Dewhurst)的工作就是预测本周不可预测的天气状况，她就是这一主题的焦点。
Our weather this week has been all over the place, hasn't it? Typical for spring. One minute it's been dry, it's been sunny, it's been quite warm, and the next it's been wet, it's been windy, and we've even seen some hailstones. But what's been causing it? Well, actually, our weather's been quite unusual for the last 18 months.
我们这周的天气一直很不稳定，不是吗？典型的春天。前一分钟还很干燥，天气晴朗，相当温暖，下一分钟就变得潮湿，刮风，我们甚至还看到了一些冰雹。但是什么原因造成的呢？事实上，过去 18 个月我们的天气很不寻常。
It's been England's wettest 18 months on record, and it's all due to the jet stream. Now, the jet stream is a fast-flowing stream of air that sits around five to seven miles above the Earth's surface, and that drives the bulk of our weather, This time of year, it would normally be sat a little bit further north, but because it's been so far south, it's been driving lots of low pressure in from the southwest, and that's what's been bringing very wet and quite windy weather our way.
这是英格兰有记录以来最潮湿的18个月，这都是由于急流造成的。现在，急流是一种快速流动的空气流，位于距地球表面约五到七英里的地方，它驱动着我们的大部分天气。每年的这个时候，它通常会位于偏北一点的地方，但由于它距离南方太远，它从西南方向带来大量低压，这就是给我们带来非常潮湿和多风的天气的原因。
Now, at the beginning part of this week, we saw an area of low pressure and that brought a very active weather front. So lots of energy, some very heavy showers and some strong, what's called squally winds. Now, we could have seen a tornado in some parts of the UK, but because we don't have any camera footage of that, it's difficult to confirm. But we certainly saw strong winds, strong enough to cause some damage.
现在，在本周初，我们看到了一个低压区域，这带来了非常活跃的锋面。能量如此之大，有些阵雨非常猛烈，有些则称为狂风。现在，我们可能在英国的某些地区看到了龙卷风，但由于我们没有任何摄像机镜头，因此很难确认。但我们确实看到了强风，其强度足以造成一些损害。
Around the middle part of the week, things settling down a little bit. A classic case of April showers where we'll see some sunshine one minute and the next it'll be absolutely chucking it down. But what we need in order for things to really settle down is some high pressure. And there is some arriving this weekend. So Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the UK should see drier and more settled conditions, not necessarily waterable sunshine. There will be a little bit of cloud around at times, but whenever we do see the sunshine, it should feel a little bit warmer.
本周中期左右，事情会稍微稳定下来。这是四月阵雨的一个典型例子，前一分钟我们还看到阳光，下一分钟就彻底消失了。但是，为了让事情真正安定下来，我们需要的是一些高压。还有一些将于本周末抵达。因此，周五、周六和周日，英国应该会看到更干燥、更稳定的天气，不一定是可浇水的阳光。有时周围会有一点云，但每当我们看到阳光时，应该会感觉温暖一点。
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