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At the end of the first week in November the computers started to generate some very unusual numbers for the North Atlantic. In the swell graphs these numbers manifested in huge black (or dark purple, depending on the data provider) holes, wandering slowly from the southern tip of Greenland to the east. The weather stations and buoys northwest of Scotland translated these dark colours into swell heights of over 6 meters and swell periods of up to 19 seconds. These are numbers – particularly in combination with the high period – which would make big waves surfers in the Pacific nervous.
The North Atlantic is tiny in comparison to the Pacific, and normally numbers like these should not pop up here, because the North Atlantic lacks the fetch necessary to create that much swell energy. But there was a reason for this anomality, a deep low with hurricane force winds which hung around between Newfoundland and Greenland pretty stationary for more than a day and thus pumping lots of energy into the ocean.
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forecast graphs by magic seaweed, windfinder and DMI
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