Maybe force 6 is normal, but this is easily force 10+
Even the fastnet race of 79 was LESS than what we are seeing in this video
The pilot chart for north atlantic in december is showing 20% of days are at a gale in your latitudes, but that's again, a far stretch from the video: https://www.offshoreblue.com/nav/pilot-charts.php
Here's the beaufort scale for reference: https://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/beaufort.html
other sites: "For first time ever, drone sent into eye of Cat. 4 hurricane"
the article outlines footage from inside the hurricane.
If someone tells you there’s jam inside a donut do you complain that the hole through the middle appears to contain no jam?
Further the article has a video showing the location of the drone in the storm, pretty far from the eye.