wHATS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CYCLONE AND A HURRICANE,JUST SIZE?

Answer 1

Technically speaking a hurricane is a type of cyclone. I believe any twisting storm (tornado, hurricane, monsoon, etc.) can all be classified as cyclones.

More anecdotally, I believe southern hemisphere uses cyclone instead of hurricane, for the same type of storm. So I think the real answer you're looking for is that there is no difference.

Answer 2

Ok, people here don't seem to get that while hurricanes are precisely defined, cyclone has several distinct meanings. Hurricanes are warm low pressure storms originating in the tropical Atlantic, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, or Eastern North Pacific with winds of 65 knots (74mph) or greater. As such there are technically no hurricanes occurring elsewhere in the world, or any with clockwise rotation. However, the Indian Ocean has storms called "cyclones" which are essentially the same thing--that is just their name for what we North Americans would call a hurricane. In the Western Pacific they are called typhoons.

In North America, "cyclone" can also be used to refer to tornadoes, and historically to any strong windstorm. In that sense it is much smaller than a hurricane.

In meteorological lingo, "cyclone" refers to a low pressure area with counterclockwise rotation in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise rotation in the Southern. As crazy as it sounds, that means that it is possible for a cyclone (tornado) to rotate anti-cyclonically (clockwise).

Please feel free to contact me for further clarification, many people seem to be missing the subtleties of this question (which is asked about every other week on here).

Answer 3

A cyclone is a large low-pressure area born on the front separating two major air masses, around or within which (the low pressure area) an air mass rotates; it contains clouds, precipitation and thunderstorms along the cold front.

A hurricane (from the name of the Mayan god for storms) is an Atlantic cyclone (or East Pacific cyclone) in which sustained winds exceed a certain speed. I.E., very strong cyclones that can hit the (North, Central or South) American coast.

On other continents, cyclones that reach a certain size may have other names, like typhoons.

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correct J P: the word cyclone comes from the fact that there is a rotational movement (in weather systems: counterclockwise in northern hemisphere). High pressures may also engender rotational movement of the air mass, with winds going in a clockwise direction (in northern hemisphere): they are then called "anticyclones".

Vacuum cleaners where the air is forced into spinning vortices are correctly called "cyclonic" (or have 'cyclone' in their names)

Answer 4

sure I agree that those words could be puzzling. first of all Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cyclones are each and every of the same. all of them are available in from the sea and are powered by applying the warmth waters, because of the fact of this why we don't get them interior the united kingdom. Hurricanes are what English human beings call them. Typhoons are eastern and Cyclones are the different Asians. Tornadoes are thoroughly distinctive they arrive while warm air and funky air meet and puncture a layer above and then a twister starts off to look and dad out of the clouds and hits the Earth Please don't get blended up between those 2 they are like opposites to a minimum of one yet another.

Answer 5

Tropical revolving storms are called hurricanes in the Atlantic and the eastern Pacific; typhoons in the South China Sea (NW Pacific); and tropical cyclones in the Indian and south Pacific oceans. It is common for the correct name "tropical cyclone" to be abbreviated to "cyclone" so in countries which get tropical cyclones, the word "cyclone" is not used for anything else to avoid confusion.

Answer 6

There's no difference. Cyclones are the same as Typhoons, which are the same as Hurricanes. The difference is the area of the planet that they form in. Cyclones form in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean.

See Wikipedia for clarification:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane

Answer 7

They are called typhoons generally in the eastern hemisphere(west of the dateline). A cyclone means that the winds are circulating around in a counterclockwise direction. Storms over 74mph are hurricanes. A severe tropical cyclone can be a hurricane.

Answer 8

Location

Answer 9

It's a hurricane in northern hemisphere and a cyclone in the southern. Believe that's it.

Answer 10

There is no difference; with the exception of the ocean they start at. don't know why.