"wave heights around 45 feet west west of Ireland"

[Wetstuff]

...words like "all-time record for North Atlantic"

https://blog.weather.us/storm-dennis-could-challenge-all-time-record-for-strongest-north-atlantic-storm/


Jim

[Tom]

Looks like all of Europe is going to get some

https://www.surf-forecast.com/weather_maps/North-Atlantic

[surfinJ]

It has been constant. I live three miles to the beach on the quite countryside and the roar of the ocean is quite audible.
Where and when to surf become quite complicated equations.  15' at 23 seconds is the new swell expected today.
Hopefully before dark.

[Tom]

The National Weather Service's Ocean Prediction Center reported that a satellite passing over the storm detected a significant wave height of 64 feet west of Ireland. This means individual waves in that area were potentially as high as 128 feet! Significant wave height is defined as the average of the highest one-third of waves in a particular period, and tends to run about half the height of single waves.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/02/14/storm-dennis-historic-bomb-cyclone/

[Area 10]

The problem is the wind. And the rain, leading to widespread flooding, since Dennis is just after storm Ciara.

Local to me, there have been gusts of wind up to 91mph, and it's been F7-10 onshore for days. Tough to surf in that, at most spots.

Here was the surf in storm Ciara, which seemingly turned into the beginning of storm Dennis with only one day of good surf between them:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-sussex-51444109/storm-ciara-hastings-lifeboat-battles-through-waves

[Tom]

Check out this plane landing in crosswinds in London

[Bean]

Just like surfing (sort of), nice kick-out!

[Dusk Patrol]

A 10 - the surfer looked to be in better circumstances than the rescue boat, but he probably didn't think so.

...and that Airbus, I wonder if the rudder alone was able to kick the tail around like that, in that wind. Impressive display of subtle control by the pilot for sure.