It is so dry in the Midwest that the trees are bribing the dogs. So goes the joke from the dust bowl era of the 1930s. In the past two weeks, the US has broken a record number of heat records. And in the past 12 months the average temperature has beaten any since US records began – including 1933, the hottest year of that overbaked decade.
美國中西部地區太乾燥了,以至於樹都在向狗行賄。這是美國上世紀30年代沙塵暴(dust bowl)時期的一個玩笑。過去兩週,美國重新整理了高溫記錄。過去12個月,美國平均氣溫爲有記錄以來的最高溫,包括1933年,那是整個酷熱的30年代裏最熱的年份。
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