Tweet
SUPER SIZED
On the Beaufort scale, a ‘Storm’ is force 10 with a mean wind speed of 52 knots and a probable maximum wave height of 12m. One notch up from this is a ‘Violent Storm’, force 11, which requires 60 knot mean winds and gigantic 16m or 52 feet waves. Imogen comfortably slotted into the ‘Violent Storm’ category and was even compared to the January 2014 storm, Hercules, which triggered some of the biggest waves ever recorded and ridden down at Nazaré in Portugal.
