"Malcolm" wrote (quoting the Daily Express, I think):

"The deepest and most powerful low pressure system for A CENTURY
is currently hurtling towards the west coast where mammoth 50-ft
waves threaten mayhem."

Are they claiming that it's *already* the deepest and most powerful low
pressure system for a century (which should be easy enough to verify or
refute), or just that they *expect* it to be?

It certainly looks quite lively out there in the Atlantic...