Stormy landing in Boston - 45kts crosswind

OK 45 kts is it possible, been there done that. I was flying Copilot with the Commanding Officer of VR-55 a Navy C-9 (DC-9) squadron back in 1988. We had been vectored all over hell because of bad weather for our final destination of KNQX Naval Air Station Key West. We had started the day leaving from NAS Alameda, California. I was getting apprehensive about our fuel to make our alternate as this was going on and brought it to the CO's attention as we were in this situation. As bad luck would have it, when we finally got close during our descent, the atis reported like 45 kts of crosswind reported on the runway. I told the CO we are screwed now because we don't have enough fuel to safely make the alternate, and the landing wind is way out of our limits. He just looked at me and said calmly, "well I guess we gotta land." I figured this was going to go real bad, possibly a landing mishap of some sort. I figured, he's the CO it's his decision, it's his wings, not mine, I'm along for the ride now. The CO was a good stick and I figured he could pull it off but we were out of normal performance limits. The plane was rocking, bucking and snorting all the way on final. We got touchdown and the CO put it right on centerline and stopped the plane. During taxi in I figured the atis must have been off along with the tower wind checks we got as we shot the approach.
When we blocked in, it was my job to jump out of the seat and open the planes door. Having a Navy clean cut haircut with a couple of inches of hair on top, I was surprised of the blast of air I got that made my hair blow straight back. Shit, it was windier then hell, and the CO had made one of the best crosswind landings in my 40 year flying career. My own in later years as the Captain on an MD-11 in Narita, Japan during a typhoon, was just as good, but that's a different story.

"Crosswind, Turbulence, Rain & Birds"
For some reason that cracks me up. Yeah, we got crosswind, turbulence, rain, and, ah, let's just throw in some birds! A lovely landing in spite of it all. Especially those birds.

Spoiler alert: it wasn't a 45 kt crosswind. It was gusting to 41, wind direction 30 degrees off runway heading. He did need quite a bit of crab on approach. Nice landing.

Meh, go fly in Newfoundland. Record was 30 of centerline gusting 65. Fight her all the way

Nice! Just a typical day in BOS. I was based there in the early 1990s flying BE99s and Metros.

A 45k crosswind 30• off the nose is only a 22.5 knot effective xwind

There's no crab angle at all that would validate 45 kt x-wind, and is this in fact within/under the crosswind limit of the aircraft?

RWY 4, reported wind 07030G41 equals a 20.5 knot crosswind component during gusts. Good right aileron during the landing rollout.