{
  "id": 10931060,
  "title": "California rushes to prepare for massive ‘Kelvin’ wave and predicted sea level rise",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/california-rushes-to-prepare-for-massive-kelvin-wave-and-predicted",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-30T11:00:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/30/california-kelvin-wave-sea-level-rise"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Wave nearing southern California expected to reach San Francisco Bay Area by October as it crawls toward Alaska Communities across California are rushing to prepare for the imminent arrival of the so-called “Kelvin wave”, a massive underwater band of warm water threatening to inundate swaths of the vast North American shoreline. The wave is nearing southern California and expected to reach the…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}