Attention: Transatlantic weather doubters

[Canuker]

This is North West France a day or ago:

 

 

 

[Ex-Airbalancer]

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I don’t understand the reason for your post 

 

[Heidi13]

14 hours ago, Canuker said:

This is North West France a day or ago:

 

 

 

 

Although we avoid getting that close to the shoreline, I have multiple similar experiences in the Atlantic, Bay of Biscay and Western Approaches.

[CGTNORMANDIE]

10 hours ago, Ex-Airbalancer said:

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I don’t understand the reason for your post 

 

I believe Heidi is showing us a recent storm in the Bay of Biscay…for the benefit of those sailing from UK to Azores/Med.    

[LHT28]

3 minutes ago, CGTNORMANDIE said:

I believe Heidi is showing us a recent storm in the Bay of Biscay…for the benefit of those sailing from UK to Azores/Med.    

It was not Heidi

[CGTNORMANDIE]

33 minutes ago, CGTNORMANDIE said:

I believe Heidi is showing us a recent storm in the Bay of Biscay…for the benefit of those sailing from UK to Azores/Med.    

Sorry…Canuker.  Rest assured…if things are rough in the Channel they will be rough in the Bay.

[Ex-Airbalancer]

The roughest seas we have been in was the Mediterranean 

15 m waves  between Toulon and Barcelona on the Celebrity Equinox 

[Heidi13]

16 hours ago, Ex-Airbalancer said:

The roughest seas we have been in was the Mediterranean 

15 m waves  between Toulon and Barcelona on the Celebrity Equinox 

 

Certainly won't dispute the wave heights, but that close to the coast, with very little fetch, 50' waves are highly unusual. In that area of the Meddy, I believe Storm Gloria in early 2020 had the largest recorded significant wave height, at about 28 feet. I recall this violent storm from the news, as we were on a World Cruise in the South Pacific.

 

Rough seas and the effect on ships are more than just wave height, as any swell, confused seas, wave period and direction all play a role in ship movement.

[Ex-Airbalancer]

1 hour ago, Heidi13 said:

 

Certainly won't dispute the wave heights, but that close to the coast, with very little fetch, 50' waves are highly unusual. In that area of the Meddy, I believe Storm Gloria in early 2020 had the largest recorded significant wave height, at about 28 feet. I recall this violent storm from the news, as we were on a World Cruise in the South Pacific.

 

Rough seas and the effect on ships are more than just wave height, as any swell, confused seas, wave period and direction all play a role in ship movement.

I am just going by what the offices told us 

[Heidi13]

5 hours ago, Ex-Airbalancer said:

I am just going by what the offices told us 

 

Unfortunately, determining wave heights, especially from a Bridge about 80' above the water is little more than an educated guess.

 

At least in my days, some of the officers may have embellished information provided to pax and then waited for the inevitable laundry rumours to start circling around the ship.  Although you don't see the Deck Officers around the ship too often, these days, similar situations could possibly still occur.

[NoBoozeCruise]

The west coast of Ireland often looks like that. Giant waves crash in to 300 foot cliffs. 

 

But the sea a few miles out is relatively calm. Little more than 10 foot rollers.