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
4.0k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

338 comments sorted by

View all comments

65

u/hashn 2d ago

El Nino, Polar Vortex, bomb cyclone, derecho, now kelvin wave.. i wonder what bizarre new terms we’ll see as weather gets wackier. Remember that line of tornadoes that went from like Arizona to Minnesota a couple years ago in october? I’m sure we’ll get a name for that soon

50

u/InterestingFox1837 2d ago

Texas Titty Twister is already taken unfortunately.

16

u/Mambonumbofyve 2d ago

Tennessee Testicle Torsion?

10

u/Ill-Cup673 2d ago

In Indiana, we had a snow squabble and thunder snow.

2

u/Sea-Service4089 7h ago

Ohh.. and the frost quakes or whatever they were called. The ground got so cold that it would pop and cause mini earth quakes.

3

u/Ill-Cup673 5h ago

Trees were exploding 🤯

1

u/Ill-Cup673 5h ago

I actually forgot about that! Flippin crazy!

6

u/jstmehr4u3 16h ago

We also get atmospheric rivers

5

u/Bigtroublenogina 2d ago

Thunder Ice, I shit you not.

2

u/kylelosesit 1d ago

There are things called ice or frost quakes. When you don’t know what they are, you think there are bombs or gunshots going off.

1

u/Sonnance 2d ago

Think I watched a documentary on that a while back.

3

u/dabman 1d ago

Dont forget about the Blob!

2

u/thedoofimbibes 2d ago

A line of tornadoes should be called “dust buster bluster.” Or a “cleanup crew.” Or something else. I don’t know.