Quite agree. I woke up in the middle of the night and looked out of the window but was still almost calm. A strong ENE wind now.
I see from AIS that most of the ocean liners in Weymouth bay are in the Channel maybe to avoid the risk of ending up on the beach if the winds were too much for the anchor chains. That would be a notable story if it were to happen.
Good point. I don’t think these winds are predicted to be as strong as the last named storm, but it’s a different issue this time with the winds from the East or South East. Before the last storm most of the cruise ships took off to ride the storm out at sea, probably for the reason you mentioned.
Just checked vesselfinder.com while typing this and a number of ships have moved away.