what is the difference between hurricanes and typhoons?

Answer 1

There are the same weather phenomenon, but they spin in opposite directions.

Hurricanes appear in the northern hemisphere and typhoons in the southern hemispere - the direction of spin is caused by the rotation of the earth.

Answer 2

Hurricanes originated from the Arawak Indian language in Puerto Rico. Since most Europeans never been to tropical areas these storms were new to them so they chose the Indian name. Typhoons are in the pacific and Indian Ocean, They are the same type of storm an Intense tropical Low.

Answer 3

Hurricane - a tropical cyclone with winds of 74 miles (119 kilometers) per hour or greater that occurs especially in the western Atlantic, that is usually accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning, and that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes

Typhoon - A violent whirlwind; specifically, a violent whirlwind occurring in the Chinese seas.

Answer 4

A typhoon is a kind of hurricane which occurs mostly in the regions of the Philipines and the China Sea. It is a large, tropical cyclone.

Answer 5

Hurricanes and typhoons are pretty much the same thing but has different names in different parts of the world.

Answer 6

Both refer to the same tropical revolving storms.But they originate from different oceans.They are called hurricanes in America and typhoons in China,Japan and Phillipines.

Answer 7

There are no difference between them. Storms with winds stronger than 75 mph that form in the Atlantic Ocean are called "hurricanes" and storms with winds stronger than 75 mph that form in the Pacific Ocean are called "typhoons".
The only difference it's just what they are called.

Answer 8

None, except they are hurricanes in the Atlantic ocean and typhoons in the Pacific ocean.

Answer 9

hur·ri·cane (hûr-kn, hr-) KEY

NOUN:

A severe tropical cyclone originating in the equatorial regions of the Atlantic Ocean or Caribbean Sea or eastern regions of the Pacific Ocean, traveling north, northwest, or northeast from its point of origin, and usually involving heavy rains.
A wind with a speed greater than 74 miles (119 kilometers) per hour, according to the Beaufort scale.
Something resembling a hurricane in force or speed.




ty·phoon (t-fn) KEY

NOUN:

A tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans.

Answer 10

Location, location, location :)

Hurricanes in the Atlantic, Typhoons in the Pacific.