For those of you who like sailing and exciting stories, here is a story from Smithsonian magazine I ran across today on the Mobile Bay sailing disaster of 2015, when hurricane-force winds “swept more than 100 boaters into one of the worst sailing disasters in modern American history.” Surprisingly, it is a story I don’t remember hearing before, even with my weather background.  You can read it here.

Mobile Bay’s high bluffs, barrier island and peninsula make it a safe harbor—but these same attributes exacerbated the storm’s effects. (Bryan Schutmaat)