This storm started eastward, from the California coast on the 26th of May...
At its start, the storm appeared to be an ordinary cyclonic precipitation of the type that furnishes the rainfall through the eastern part of the United States.
The great storm...had general characteristics which made it unusual for such an extensive change of weather. The storm moved at an unusually slow pace, and at a regular speed. High temperatures were shown in some areas; while low temperatures from frost to snow prevailed in others. Local storms in this vast cyclonic movement were unusually violent. Saturation was dense and rainfall enormous.
