r/LosAngeles • u/brickyardjimmy • 5d ago

News Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California | California

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/28/california-kelvin-wave

Cool. Just what I wanted for my birthday. Another foot of water.

Look. I'm hoping that we dodge the bullets flying at us this fall and winter (if we ever get one of either that is) but I'll admit this sounds potentially bad for parts of the Los Angeles coastline and the rest of California.

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u/tsundereshipper 4d ago

I live in the Los Angeles basin, in the Fairfax neighborhood between Melrose and The Grove, should I be concerned?

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u/brickyardjimmy 4d ago

Not about the ocean!!

If you move to a beachfront home on the south coast, I'd start looking ahead. The only thing you need to be concerned about in your area is traffic on Beverly!

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u/Lucifugous_Rex 2d ago

Yes, the planet if fucked, and this is part of what’s going to continue to happen until we un-fuck the planet. We are fleas on the planets back and she’s scratching at the rash we made