The fifth named storm of the winter 2017 – 2018 season was, in part, formed by the arctic blast that has been hitting America of late (and today produced snow in Florida). With a temperature range of almost 72° between the coldest place in America (Grand Forks, ND) and the warmest place (Tijauna, CA) the jet stream has been given a very large kick and as such spins depressions into a frenzy and then sends them over here (as seen in the picture above) and what happened when it got here
Aberystwyth got pummeled by the Irish Sea (and we got some fairly large waves as well)
Several coastal towns in Cornwall were flooded, some for the fourth time in as many months
Alderney, in the Channel Islands, recorded some of the strongest gusts for nearly 50 years
And in Blackpool, we had the, now surprisingly common in coastal communities, “ATTACK OF THE SEA FOAM”
And yet, the United Kingdom isn’t out of the woods yet, because thanks to that storm whipping along the eastern seaboard we have the potential for this to happen
The so called “Beast from the East” that can make snow on the east coast and make central England colder than central Scotland
Wow, that’s an extremely impressive storm! How often do you get sea foam like that?
Sea Foam is, as you state, moderately rare in the UK, but if the wind blowing is in the same relative direction as the sea (from the west on the west coast and from the east on the east coast) then yes, you can get it.