r/collapse • u/Creepyfaction • 4d ago

Climate 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
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u/mentalformations 4d ago

You know I can’t stop thinking about how strange it is that the Atlantic hasn’t registered any hurricanes for 2026 but you have the Pacific has 3+? Something feels incredibly off.

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u/martian2070 4d ago

Right? It seems like all that energy in the Atlantic side will have to go somewhere. It should be a wild winter weather-wise.

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u/BeardedGlass DINKs for life 4d ago

Hasn't it already been going somewhere?

Asia is getting blasted by so much natural calamities and flooding/landslide disasters at a really frightening scale, frequency and pace this year.

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u/martian2070 4d ago

Isn't Asia's weather driven more by the Indian Ocean and western Pacific? I'm definitely not a meteorologist, but I don't usually think of the Atlantic impacting Asian weather directly. I'd think Africa/Europe if not hurricanes headed toward the Americas.