What is the difference between a Typhoon and a Hurricane?

Answer 1

It never ceases to amaze me how people give so many bad answers on the simple "What's the difference between a Tornado-Hurricane-Typhoon-Cycl... questions.

Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are the same storms, just different locations. Hurricanes are Atlantic and eastern Pacific storms, typhoons are northwestern Pacific storms and cyclones are southern Pacific and Indian ocean storms.

Myths:

A typhoon doesn't rotate opposite a hurricane. They rotate the same direction. A typhoon isn't a hurricane over land. Typhoons are not storms around the entire Pacific ocean. They're only in the Western Pacific. Mexico and Hawaii do get hurricanes. A typhoon also has an eye. A typhoon isn't "stronger" than a hurricane. In fact, the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone on record is a hurricane, and that was Wilma, but typhoons tend to be stronger because there's more ocean water to work with in Asia.

Answer 2

Typhoon: local name in the western North Pacific region for a large tropical cyclone.
Hurricane: local name in the Caribbean, North Atlantic, and eastern North Pacific regions for a large tropical cyclone
Tropical cyclone: also called typhoon or hurricane an intense circular storm that originates over warm tropical oceans and is characterized by low atmospheric pressure, high winds, and heavy rain

Answer 3

A typhoon forms in the Pacific, a hurricane forms in the Atlantic.

Answer 4

A typhoon is in the Pacific Ocean and a hurricane is in the Atlantic. Otherwise, they are the same.

Answer 5

Location. Near the american continent they are called hurricanes. In the western north pacific they are called typhoons. In the south pacific and southern indian oceans they are called cyclones.

Answer 6

Typhoon is on the west pacfic and hurricanes are in the atlantic and east pacfic also cyclones are in the southern hemespeare.

Answer 7

Nothing. Just the area in which they are in. In the Pacific, Asia and Japan they're called Typhoons. Every where else they're hurricanes. Every where else they're cyclones.

Answer 8

there aint ne difference between typhoon n hurricane its just the different names given in diff =erent countries

Answer 9

hurricane is in western hemisphere and typhoon is in eastern hemisphere mostly indian ocean

Answer 10

Same thing but one is in the Western hemisphere and the other is in the East. Different names for the same type of storm.