I have given up on reporting on all the climatic storms around the globe. But a couple of "big" ones have forced me to get on deck.

Here we have a "massive storm" on the US coast that did a bit of damage to one of the cattle-class ships for tourists, plus a storm in the UK where the winds and rain are yet again creating more floods. Imagine the waves approaching Scotland towering about 19 metres! (that's about 65 feet). At present these monster waves are diminishing to 12 then 8 metre waves in the next couple of days.

Somehow a cruise ship had steered its way into the storm: Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas, a giant vessel which holds more than 4000 passengers. The ship was on its way from the New York City area to Port Canaveral, Florida, when it not only encountered the storm, but really sailed right into the heart of it.

What makes this story so inexplicable is that this storm has been in the forecast for days. Weather can be an uncertain science, but this was the one thing forecasters knew was going to happen early this week.

One passenger posted an account of his harrowing journey to cruisecritic.com. "Captain tried to turn ship but waited too long," the passenger wrote. "Captain said they are in communication with the Coast Guard, struggling to point ship into wind but can't move forward. All passengers told to stay in cabins water entered ship on upper decks, large white structure broke off top of ship landed in pool."

The passenger said that at the height of the storm, waves were breaking over the tops of the lifeboats and the whole ship was listing to almost 45 degrees. The passenger said the wind and sea spray made it look like a total white out.

"Some passengers sitting in muster stations," the passenger added, though they were probably doing so out of fear and not by order. Muster stations are where passengers assemble on a ship in the event of an emergency, usually in preparation for evacuation.

The Coast Guard was aware of the incident, though not because Royal Caribbean contacted them, but because they saw alarmed passengers posting to social media.

I can see already the CEOs of insurance companies having heart attacks... More pay outs... unless they sue the captain for not turning back earlier. But then no-one not even god can move England from the path of next storms. By the way more winter storms are coming in the US. When one sees the chart above where the cool winds are sucked in by what is really a winter hurricane over a huge expense over the Atlantic, one can only see more troubles.