EL NINO

The US is forecasting a 50% chance of an El Nino event this year. The last one, in 1997/8 caused huge damage and, depending on where in Asia or South America you were, huge floods, droughts and storms. Not fun.

It did however also cause a Los Angeles resident, Mr Al Nino, to receive hundreds of calls a day from people demanding to know why he was messing up the worlds weather and that he stop it immediately. One caller even blamed him for the callers daughter losing her virginity, though quite how he was to blame for this is unclear. Excellent story