Base climate — what Cross would be without the Seals
Temperate continental with four bands (The nine wounds). A humid summer in the insular west, dry in the east; a hard winter in the north, mild in the south. Nothing extraordinary.
On this base three forcings act that do not exist in the real world:
| Forcing | What it does | Where |
|---|---|---|
| ForcingSeal ash | What it doescools the whole continent for years | Whereglobal, 1780-1800 |
| ForcingHeat of the fissure | What it doeswarms locally, dries the air, lengthens the season | Whereeast and southeast, permanent |
| ForcingIndustrial soot | What it doesdarkens, sickens, warms cities | Whereurban, 1840 onward |
I. Age of Ash · 1780-1815 — the High Ash
What happened
Every Seal that breaks opens a fissure of tens of kilometres and vents the interior of the range for months. Seven Seals in seven years. The result is a continuous injection of fine material into the upper atmosphere between 1780 and about 1790, with a slow decay until 1800.
The effect measured in parish registers (reconstructed from vintage dates and cereal tithes):
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