Experts with U.C. San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography say their equipment recorded a monstrous 75-foot wave off the Humboldt Coast the evening of November 27.
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Scripps scientists also announced that its buoy 20 miles west of Cape Mendocino recorded wave heights that evening that averaged more than 43 feet tall .
The storm set the preliminary low-pressure record for California with a reading of 973.6 millibars at Crescent City. According to scientists, the lower the atmospheric pressure, the more intense the storm.