Hurricane Zyklos
Hurricane Zyklos was a strong tropical storm that formed off of the Euran Coast in late 1680 AN. The storm was first classified by the Southern Meteorological Service, and was incorporated into a test of that service's weather manipulation technology. SMS personnel and equipment were airlifted to Porto Vormouna near one of the storm's projected paths, and were subsequently loaded onto the CSS Eagle, an aircraft carrier, to get closer to the storm and provide the aircraft which would be used against the storm with a closer runway. The SMS began monitoring the storm from the carrier, but said that no direct action to affect the storm would be taken until the storm was classified as a hurricane, which the SMS believed to be inevitable at the time. They were proven right when, on 3.IX.1680 AN, Zyklos was reclassified as a category 1 hurricane. Anti-hurricane measures were immediately initiated, beginning with seeding the eye wall in an attempt to cause the storm to collapse.
Timeline
- 24.VIII.1680 AN: SMS issues a warning citing a new tropical depression in the sea near Eura. Early predictions showed it would likely become stronger.
- 1.IX.1680 AN: SMS recategorises the depression as a tropical storm, and names it Zyklos.
- 2.IX.1680 AN:
- 11:00 - SMS airlifts personnel and equipment to Porto Vormouna to study Zyklos.
- 16:00 - SMS takes CSS Eagle out near the storm.
- 3.IX.1680 AN:
- 7:00 - Zyklos is recategorised as a category 1 hurricane.
- 9:00 - CSS Eagle begins moving with the storm; contingent of propeller planes begin flying into the eye and seeding the eyewall with silver iodide.
