Maybe I'm confused as to the naming & designation of tropical cyclones?
2006-09-02 02:28:06 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
They are called "hurricanes" in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean. But once your go west across the International Dateline and into the western Pacific Ocean, they're called typhoons. And of course, the Australians, who have colorful names for just about everything, have their own term for hurricanes: "willy-willys."
Typhoons generally tend to be stronger than hurricanes, but only because there's warmer water in the western Pacific and are better conditions for storm development. And they've been known to affect Seattle: Some of our strongest windstorms ever recorded were remnants of a typhoon in the western Pacific.
2006-09-02 02:33:49 · answer #1 · answered by neoteenbe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only Hurricanes that form on the west pacific is called Typhoons
2006-09-02 06:35:26 · answer #2 · answered by Justin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Typhoons" is generally reserved for cyclonic storms in the western Pacific Ocean; those originating in the Eastern Pacific are called "hurricanes" (as are those in the Atlantic).
2006-09-02 03:34:53 · answer #3 · answered by idiot detector 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its not far enough away from the coast to be considered a typhoon .
2006-09-02 02:33:55 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
didn't it start in Africa and go across Mexico into the Pacific?
2006-09-02 02:30:31 · answer #5 · answered by blank 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the coreolis effect is different in the northern hemisphere
2006-09-02 02:32:10 · answer #6 · answered by almostvoid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋