Anton Johansson described a catastrophic 'hurricane' or storm — understood by later interpreters as atomic explosions, which did not exist in his lifetime. It would originate near the Panama Canal, devastate North America (Virginia, Chicago, Minneapolis, Washington, New York), then cross the Atlantic to strike the British Isles — England and especially its east coast suffering most severely — and continental Europe (France, Germany, Spain, Scandinavia, Italy, Eastern Europe), reaching the Black Sea, Crimea, southern Russia and Siberia.