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

Answer 1

A cyclone is a funnel cloud that occurs on land. It is also known as a tornado.

A hurricane, typhoon, and tropical cyclone are exactly the same; the name reflects where in the world it occurs. Hurricanes occur off the North American coasts, and in the Caribbean. Typhoons occur in Southeast Asia, and tropical cyclones occur everywhere else.

Answer 2

Three different names for a tropical storm, and the name used depends on where: in the Atlantic or eastern Pacific, it's a hurricane; in the western Pacific, a typhoon; in the Indian Ocean, a cyclone. To further compound the confusion, a low pressure region in North America is also called a cyclone.

Answer 3

All low pressure systems are cyclones just as all high pressure systems are anticyclones. That being said, the term "cyclone" has a more restricted use as it means different things to different people.

Tropical revolving storms are called hurricanes in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans, typhoons in the South China Sea and tropical cyclones in the south Pacific and Indian oceans.

Tropical cyclones in Australia and the south Pacific are most frequently referred to as "cyclones" and the term is never used for anything else. For that reason you won't see "anticyclone" used in Australia either. The film The Wizard of Oz tells us that tornadoes in the USA can be referred to as "cyclones'. Tornadoes are unrelated to tropical revolving storms so to avoid ambiguity it is better to use the correct name.

Answer 4

hurricane is in the western hemisphere
typhoons are in the eastern hemisphere
and cyclones are tornadoes.

Answer 5

The only difference is where they occur on our earth.

It's based on the region of the globe where they occur.

Is there an echo in here?



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Answer 6

They are of the same type.Only the name differs from place to place.

Answer 7

Nothing. They're all blow jobs.... LOL

I couldn't resist...