The satellite imagery was outrageous. But now, the ocean is putting on a show of its own.

Super Typhoon Champi, one of the Pacific’s most powerful storms of 2026, is sending enormous surf into Taiwan’s coastline, where authorities have warned of waves exceeding six meters, or roughly 20 feet.

A widely circulated video shows almost cartoonishly enormous walls of water: surf detonating around a lighthouse, whitewater pounding a coastal road as cars pass, and breakers looming behind a city skyline. Check out the almost unfathomable chaos below.

The threat is undeniable. Reuters photographs show heavy seas battering the coast near Keelung, while Taiwan’s Central Weather Administration (CWA) has issued both land and sea warnings.

As SURFER previously reported , Champi reached Category 5-equivalent strength earlier this week, with satellite images revealing an almost perfectly circular eye.…