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good call on The Economist
45 mph wind would give you a 26 foot wave in no time.
The med really isn’t THAT small; have you read the Odyssey?
Wave pressures and wind churning builds up over distance. The Meditteranean has the misfortune of also being near/on the Equator, and subject to massive tidal forces and water flow (Portugal can have six meter high and low tide difference, it’s in the Guiness Book). Start combining those elements and a 26 foot wave is nothing. Be glad it wasn’t the open ocean…hundred footers are possible out there.
==Bob D.
Four 10 foot swells merging gives you a 40 foot wave, so…