Monster Waves Blast 130ft Cliff in Portugal During Storm Ingrid (Video)

It’s been a wild week of wind, weather, and swell in Europe.

The latest being from Storm Ingrid, which brought massive waves all the way from Portugal up to the United Kingdom. With regards to the former, some waves were so big, so powerful that they nearly toppled a cliffside measuring 40 meters (130 feet).

See the Surfline cam rewind below.

As the forecast wizards at Surfline noted:

“Storm Ingrid is battering the coast of Portugal right now. That cliff is 40 meters high for reference. While we await conditions to be more conducive for surfing, explore the cams across Europe to see the power of the North Atlantic.”

Of course, large swells and Portugal make one thing come to mind: Nazaré. So, how did the Portuguese beast look amidst the tempest of swell and stormy weather?

Per Nic Von Rupp’s post above, it didn’t look too inviting. In fact, most of the scenes coming out of Nazaré, recently, have looked like victory at sea. Hopes were high, however, ahead of last weekend as a seemingly unprecedented storm marched its way towards the Portuguese big-wave gauntlet. There were even whispers of the mythical 100-foot wave.

But lots of bump and lump put a damper on things.

Meanwhile, as Portugal continues to get battered by Storm Ingrid, this isn’t the only swell event of note lately across Europe. Before Ingrid’s arrival, a truly extraordinary storm, Cyclone Harry, pummeled the Mediterranean, sending never-before-seen massive surf to portions of Italy. Surfers, like Roberto D’Amico capitalized in Sardinia.

“It was definitely the most powerful waves I have ever experienced in the Mediterranean,” D’Amico told Surf Forecast in their report from the cyclone swell. “As you know, I haven’t missed one of them [swells in the Mediterranean]. I was lucky enough to score most of the swells in the last 15, 20 years around here. But yesterday was something else.”

And it really was a never-before-seen storm in the Mediterranean; a buoy between Malta and Sicily recorded the largest-ever wave in the sea, clocking in at 52-feet.

Sadly, the storm also wreaked havoc along Sicily and Malta.