Don't tell me the spelling is different! I got confused when my daughter asked me that question... In her text book, there said hurricane and cyclone are a kind of typhoon... WHY DON'T THEY JUST SAY THEY ARE TYPHOONS? Help...
2007-09-14 23:29:02 · 8 answers · asked by Alice T 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
In Asia such as Japan,China and Korea they are called typhoons but its not the wind that cause the danger it the water they will dump loads of water and flood towns.In Bangladesh they will be called cyclones but they are also known as tornadoes.In Australia willy willys are cyclones in Northern Australia.Hurricanes are named in the Atlantic and start out over Africa and head to the Carribean,Central America and Florida.
2007-09-15 08:35:40 · answer #1 · answered by Dust Devil 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes I agree that these terms can be confusing. First off Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cyclones are all the same. They all come in from the sea and are powered by the warm waters, this is the reason why we don't get them in the UK. Hurricanes are what English people call them. Typhoons are Japanese and Cyclones are the other Asians. Tornadoes are completely different they come when hot air and cool air meet and puncture a layer above and then a tornado starts to appear and come out of the clouds and hits the Earth Please don't get mixed up between these two they are like opposites to each other.
2016-05-20 00:46:39 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A cyclone is the generic term here. It is any phenomenon that spins. One type of cyclone is the hurricane/typhoon. Same thing, tropical low pressure. Where it occurs is the difference. In the Atlantic, it's always called hurricane. When it forms west of roughly Hawaii, it is called typhoon.
2007-09-15 09:35:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A cyclone is an atmospheric system characterized by the rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low-pressure center, usually accompanied by stormy, often destructive weather. Cyclones circulate counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. The difference is where it is formed. Hurricanes are l cyclones that were formed in the Carribean and Antlantic Ocean. While the typhoon is a cyclone that was formed in the Pacific Ocean. The cyclones that are formed in the Indian Ocean are also called typhoon. the cyclones in Australia are called Willy-willies.
2007-09-15 00:14:09 · answer #4 · answered by oliver_monghit 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
All three are names for tropical cyclones. Other names are tropical storm, cyclonic storm and tropical depression, depending upon how strong they are.
The words come from different sources.
Typhoon - from the Greek for strong wind through Arabic and then the Indian sub-continent, but see below.
Hurricane - from Spanish, but of West Indian or American Indian origin
Cyclone - from Greek, possible from a source meaning to revolve, alternatively from a word meaning a wheel.
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Added: I have added links that give the etymology of the three words. Typhoon has an interesting history, coming into English from the Indian sub-continent from Greek, but similar to a Chinese word with the same meaning.
2007-09-14 23:47:11 · answer #5 · answered by DougF 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, spelling has nothing to do with it, it's location, in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific, it's called hurricanes, in the Western Pacific, it's called typhoons, and in the Indian Ocean they call them Cyclones. There are other names that hurricanes are giving in each location.
2007-09-15 01:56:31 · answer #6 · answered by trey98607 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they are all the same thing, they are just called by different names in different areas of the world
2007-09-14 23:36:28 · answer #7 · answered by Gordon S 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means the same
TYPHOONS-the Chinese name for storms.
HURRICANES- the American name for storms.
CYCLONES-the English name for storms.
2007-09-15 05:26:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋