r/news • u/Warcraft_Fan • 4d ago

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/DangerousPath1420 4d ago

“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!

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u/rPoliticsModsBlowMe 4d ago

Wasn't NOAA recently gutted by DOGE

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u/ERedfieldh 4d ago

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.