Which climate phenomenon are you?

My last blog was a long one, so this evening I am just dropping by to share a quick link that I found while reading about seasonal forecasting.

We've all seen those online personality quizzes to see which superhero you are or which Disney princess you are most like, but Columbia University's International Research Institute have come up with a new one: Which climate phenomenon are you?

Source: www.farmersalmanac.com

This is the link to the quiz:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/climatesociety/what-climate-phenomenon-are-you-actually-10hu5

Apparently, I am like the Pacific Decadal Oscillation - Mysterious apparently!

Aside from the novelty of this quiz, I appreciate the effort to bring a bit of climate science into a different more entertaining platform. ENSO gets a lot of press but there are lots of competing and compounding mode of climate variability with global and local effects. Personifying them in this way is a neat idea to help in their understanding.

I now have a closer affinity towards the PDO at least!

There's a summary of many of the significant modes of climate variability at the IRI website. This link will no doubt be useful as these modes will surely come up again in my future blogs.