what is the difference between a hurricane, typhoon and cyclone ?

Answer 1

Three different names for the same phenomenon. The term hurricane is used in the Atlantic, typhoon in the Pacific, and cyclone in the Indian Ocean.

Answer 2

All the three forms are same. The only differentiating factor of these is the place (watermass) of origin.
If a systems gets formed in the Pacific ocean region (near south east asia) then it is called as typhoon.
When it originates in Indian ocean then it is called as cyclone. If the same forms anywhere in Atlantic ocean then it would be called as hurricane.

Answer 3

I just answered this elsewhere.

Tropical revolving storms are called "hurricanes" in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans. They are called "typhoons" in the South China Sea and they are called "tropical cyclones" in the South Pacific and Indian Oceans.

The term "cyclone" can refer to any low pressure system at any latitude just as "anticyclone" refers to high pressure systems. The tropical revolving storm is called a "tropical cyclone".

Answer 4

Location, location, location.
Different names for the same phenomena, in different parts of the world. I have experienced one hurricane, and several typhoons, but never a cyclone.

Answer 5

"Tropical storms have different names in different oceans. They are known as hurricanes in the western North Atlantic, eastern North Pacific, and western South Pacific; as cyclones in the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, south Indian Ocean, and in th vicinity of North-West Australia; and as typhoons in the western North Pacific."

Answer 6

Same - called by different countries with different names.

Hurricane - American continents
Cyclone - Indian Sub continent
Typhoon - East Asian countries

Answer 7

If one of them is about im not staying to find out whitch one it is

Answer 8

dunno but there's more wind there than in a bean eaters convention!!!