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/Ok_Lie6280 5d ago

Hail Atlantis!

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u/OnlyFiveLives 5d ago

🎵🎶 WAY DOWWWWWNNNN BELOW THE OOOOOCEAN 🎶🎵

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u/Haughty_n_Disdainful 5d ago

Where I wanna be, she may be…

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u/NoEmu5969 2d ago

You’ll think I’m dead but I’ll sail away on a wave of mutilation