Cyclone vs. Hurricane?

Question

I live in the United States. Our BIG storms in the Southeast area are called Hurricanes. But the BIG storm that just happened in Bangladesh is called a Cyclone. When you see it from a space satellite it looks exactly like a Hurricane. Why do they call the same type of storm, different names.?? Thank you.

Answer 1

Hey,

Actually: they are named based on where they occur. They are all the same kind of a storm (a tropical cyclone).

Hurricane = Atlantic ocean, Eastern pacific including Hawaiian islands
Typhoon = Western pacific
Cyclone = Southern pacific and Indian ocean

Answer 2

Monsoon=cyclone=hurricane=tropical storm=typhoon

Answer 3

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 4

They are the same however different people named them.