What is a Cyclone also known as?

Question

A cyclone is also is known as a ?

Answer 1

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/jetstream/tropics/tc_classification.htm

Tropical Cyclone Classification

a hurricane in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Northeast Pacific Ocean east of the dateline, and the South Pacific Ocean east of 160°E, (The word hurricane comes from the Carib Indians of the West Indies, who called this storm a huracan. Supposedly, the ancient Tainos tribe of Central America called their god of evil "Huracan". Spanish colonists modified the word to hurricane.),

a typhoon in the Northwest Pacific Ocean west of the dateline (super typhoon if the maximum sustained winds are at least 150 mph / 241 kph)

a severe tropical cyclone in the Southwest Pacific Ocean west of 160°E or Southeast Indian Ocean east of 90°E,

a severe cyclonic storm in the North Indian Ocean, and
just a tropical cyclone in the Southwest Indian Ocean.

Answer 2

Cyclones can be known as:

1.) Hurricanes in the Atlantic ocean.
2.) Typhoons in the Western Pacific, pass the International Date Line.
3.) Tropical cyclones in the Indian Ocean.
4.) Mid latitude cyclones between 30 and 60 degrees North or South
5.) Extratropical cyclone are storms that have the strength of a hurricane, but no the characteristics. Extratropical mean outside the tropics.

Answer 3

A cyclone is a low pressure system while an anticyclone is a high pressure system. All lows are cyclones.

In the south Pacific and Indian oceans, tropical revolving storms, called hurricanes and typhoons elsewhere, are called tropical cyclones. Laziness, ignorance and headlines have shortened "tropical cyclone" to "cyclone" so if you are in Australia "cyclone" means "tropical cyclone" and the word is only used to mean that to avoid ambiguity.

Answer 4

1. hurricanes -happen over the North Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, or the Northeast Pacific Ocean


2. Typhoons- happen over the Northwest Pacific Ocean and west of the International Date Line

Answer 5

m88b is correct.

-side note, "waterspouts" are tornados over water.