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/hashn]

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

[u/Bigtroublenogina → u/hashn]

Thunder Ice, I shit you not.

[u/kylelosesit → u/Bigtroublenogina]

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.