[Sailor Steve]

Um, first of all 15m/s isn't 45 mph, it's 45 feet/sec, which is about 35 mph.

Second, if you look at the link you'll see that that comes to Beaufort 7, which is pretty heavy seas but hardly a raging storm.

I don't know if SH4 is done the same way as SH3, but I would guess so from things I've heard. TimeTraveller played with wind speeds in SH3 and found that he could raise the wind speed in single missions, but when reloaded they defaulted back to 15 m/s. That let him to create his Big Waves mod, which coped by doubling the wave height at every wind speed. All the player had to do was pretend the wind was twice what the in-game weather report said it was. It's a great mod, and when JScones did SH3 Commander he added that function, so the player can set his own relative wave heights to suit his tastes. I don't know if anyone is going to do something like that for SH4, but I'm hoping it will be one of the features of the new SH4 Skipper tool.