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But then, one particular blip out there on the Atlantic radar became a kind of huge black boil and was even heralded ‘larger than the perfect storm’!
Pretty much the whole windsurfing and surfing world were talking about it. ‘Winter storm Hercules’ even mystified the weather experts!
Graphs that usually only go up to black signifying 50-ft. waves, forced them to stretch the scale to white and even gold. In fact the swell reached up to 70 ft. at the height of the storm, with an area of over 300 nautical miles of 50-foot-plus seas.
In simple English, this was the mother of all storms and the only real questions for anyone chasing XXL category waves was ‘where shall we go?’
