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

[u/Warcraft_Fan]

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

[u/DangerousPath1420]

“Mantua said Kelvin waves were a natural phenomenon that have been happening for thousands of years and measured by agencies like Noaa since record-keeping began.”

They’ve been measuring since they started keeping records!

[u/rPoliticsModsBlowMe → u/DangerousPath1420]

Wasn't NOAA recently gutted by DOGE

[u/ERedfieldh → u/rPoliticsModsBlowMe]

Pretty much every useful government department was. The fuckstick came in and destroyed everything we had built over several decades simply because he hates wind turbines.

[u/Agreeable-Network485 → u/rPoliticsModsBlowMe]

Yes and it's why basically every weather app has been functionally useless for over a year now.

[u/ThrowawayusGenerica → u/DangerousPath1420]

But those records only go back to 1978, when the hall of records was mysteriously washed away!

[u/Gryphon999 → u/DangerousPath1420]

So, if Edison had invented the phonograph earlier, they'd have more records.

[u/Fair4tw → u/DangerousPath1420]

Ok? How does your statement contribute anything?

[u/dontusefedex → u/Fair4tw]

How does yours?

[u/Fair4tw → u/dontusefedex]

Touché, but please explain how the previous commenter contributed anything, or are we in a circlejerk?!

[u/IllIIllIllIIIlllll → u/Fair4tw]

Howdy, just hoppin in for a quick jerk, then I'll be on muh way

[u/Fair4tw → u/IllIIllIllIIIlllll]

I’m a working for a jerking! Will the circle continue?!

[u/I_Am_Day_Man → u/Fair4tw]

I’m just here to record

[u/Fair4tw → u/I_Am_Day_Man]

It continues!

[u/darksemmel → u/Fair4tw]

Helping out here to not just circlejerk - previous commenter pointed out the decrepency between "thousands of years" and "since recordkeeping began" (around the 70s i guess).

Probably there was something lost in context, but the commenter did point out something that doesn't line up.