The above tweet only just hints at just the sea conditions in the South Western Approaches and the West coast of Ireland over the last twenty four hours...
Here, the weather conditions at buoy 62107, the Sevenstones Lightship off Land's End - the wave heights are in feet...
or the K1 buoy well south west of Ireland and Cornwall...
while at Rockall the pressure and wave height have dropped rapidly to a mere 26 feet!...
further south and way west of Ireland on the treacherous Porcupine Bank the wave height topped an incredible 45 feet earlier today - and the wind has barely exceeded 50 knots!...
This video was shot some years ago aboard a Spanish long liner working at Rockall - and shows the FV MAR AZUL call sign MQSL8 filmed from FV TROITA call sign MQSR8 in very rough seas - the conditions are extreme and are probably a match for the wave heights currently being recorded around the western coasts of the UK and Ireland! Undoubtedly, there area number of these vessels working on the Rockall and Porcupine Banks as you read this!