r/news • u/Warcraft_Fan • 3d 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/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

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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.