75-foot wave recorded off California during last month's 'bomb cyclone'
ames Behrens, the manager for Scripp's Coastal Data Information Program, told the website that a wave of that size to occur so close to land is extremely rare.
"The only other station in the network that measured a wave this large is deployed 800 miles off the coast of Washington,” he said.
The "bomb cyclone" hit northern California and southern Oregon during one of the busiest travel times of the year. The storm brought powerful wind gusts and larger-than-normal waves along the coast.