Is there any difference between typhoon and hurricane?
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Both are severe tropical systems that have wind speeds greater than 74 mph.\n\nThey are called "hurricanes" in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean. But once your go west across the International Dateline and into the western Pacific Ocean, they're called typhoons. And of course, the Australians, who have colorful names for just about everything, have their own term for hurricanes: "willy-willys."\n\nTyphoons generally tend to be stronger than hurricanes, but only because there's warmer water in the western Pacific and are better conditions for storm development. And they've been known to affect Seattle: Some of our strongest windstorms ever recorded were remnants of a typhoon in the western Pacific.
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I thought cyclones were tornadoes and typhoons where the Pacific version of hurricanes.\n\nI may be all wet though!
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Hurricane and Typhoon names are selected by members of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).  This group is part of the United Nations.  The local or government meteorological organization will submit a name to the WMO after one has been retired off the lists maintained by the WMO.  The WMO will add the name and make it official.
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Hurricanes and typhoons are basically the same.  They differ in the directions they choose to take and their rotation.  Typhoons are normally found in the Pacific Ocean and normally strike Japan. They rotate in a CCW direction. Harricanes are found in the Alantic Ocean and strike America.  They will have a CW rotation.
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Yes.\n\nNot just hurricanes and cyclones, but extreme weather in general. More heat means more evaporation of the ocean water. More water in the atmosphere means stronger weather.
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In meteorology, a cyclone is an area of low atmospheric pressure characterised by inward spiraling winds that spin clockwise in the northern hemisphere of the Earth, or counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere. It is a generic description covering a wide variety of different meteorological phenomena such as tropical cyclones, Extratropical cyclones and tornadoes, thus is rarely used by meteorologists without a qualifying term.\n\nThe terms hurricane and typhoon are regionally specific names for a strong tropical cyclone—a non-frontal, synoptic-scale, warm-core low-pressure system with cyclonic surface wind circulation (Holland 1993). Specifically, hurricanes generally refer to such storms in the Atlantic Basin and the Pacific Ocean east of the International Date Line. Typhoons refer to the storms in the north Pacific west of the International Date Line. The typhoon term has also been applied to tropical cyclones in the South Pacific or Indian Ocean, but this is not considered correct usage today\n\nare same
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I honestly believe that hurricane season is only a month long. SEPTEMBER. Hurricanes hit landfall most often in September. It won't be worse this year. There will be other storms that will take place during that time frame.
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Well, if you have different parts of the world, the languages of that area will affect what it is called, even in one language like English. English is easily adaptable and pretty much the most flexible in terms of adopting words from other languages. \n\nFrom the first source we have a very good, detailed description of where the word typhoon comes from:\n"Word History: The history of typhoon presents a perfect example of the long journey that many words made in coming to English. It traveled from Greece to Arabia to India, and also arose independently in China, before assuming its current form in our language. The Greek word tuphn, used both as the name of the father of the winds and a common noun meaning “whirlwind, typhoon,” was borrowed into Arabic during the Middle Ages, when Arabic learning both preserved and expanded the classical heritage and passed it on to Europe and other parts of the world. fn, the Arabic version of the Greek word, passed into languages spoken in India, where Arabic-speaking Muslim invaders had settled in the 11th century. Thus the descendant of the Arabic word, passing into English (first recorded in 1588) through an Indian language and appearing in English in forms such as touffon and tufan, originally referred specifically to a severe storm in India. The modern form of typhoon was influenced by a borrowing from the Cantonese variety of Chinese, namely the word taaîfung, and respelled to make it look more like Greek. Taaîfung, meaning literally “great wind,” was coincidentally similar to the Arabic borrowing and is first recorded in English guise as tuffoon in 1699. The various forms coalesced and finally became typhoon, a spelling that first appeared in 1819 in Shelley's Prometheus Unbound."\n\nFrom the second source, the origins of cyclone and hurricane:\n"The word hurricane is derived from the name of a native Caribbean Amerindian storm god, Huracan, via Spanish huracán.\nThe word cyclone is from the Greek 'κύκλος', meaning 'circle.' An Egyptian word Cykline meaning to 'to spin' has been cited as a possible origin."
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The terms "hurricane" and "typhoon" are regionally specific names for a strong "tropical cyclone". A tropical cyclone is the generic term for a non-frontal synoptic scale low-pressure system over tropical or sub-tropical waters with organized convection (i.e. thunderstorm activity) and definite cyclonic surface wind circulation (Holland 1993). \n\nTropical cyclones with maximum sustained surface winds of less than 17 m/s (34 kt, 39 mph) are called "tropical depressions" (This is not to be confused with the condition mid-latitude people get during a long, cold and grey winter wishing they could be closer to the equator ;-)). Once the tropical cyclone reaches winds of at least 17 m/s (34 kt, 39 mph) they are typically called a "tropical storm" and assigned a name. If winds reach 33 m/s (64 kt, 74 mph)), then they are called: \n\n"hurricane" (the North Atlantic Ocean, the Northeast Pacific Ocean east of the dateline, or the South Pacific Ocean east of 160E) \n"typhoon" (the Northwest Pacific Ocean west of the dateline) \n"severe tropical cyclone" (the Southwest Pacific Ocean west of 160E or Southeast Indian Ocean east of 90E) \n"severe cyclonic storm" (the North Indian Ocean) \n"tropical cyclone" (the Southwest Indian Ocean)
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Well TweetyBird I have only experienced one hurricane and a handful of typhoons, as for the effects:\nThey uproot trees.\nBring down power cables and telephone lines.\nTear off roofs, and knock down fences.\nThey cause tidal waves (not tsunamis) that batter the coastline.\nShips are sunk, lighter buildings destroyed.\nThey cause floods.\nAfter a storm everything looks so clean all rubbish having been borne away by the wind.
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last year there was a typhoon in china called:\nlong wang
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A front is a bank of cloud that seperates warm air and cold air. A cyclone is the name given to hurricanes in the Indian and Oceanian Oceans.
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ALL nations have some natural hazards.  Anything from flooding, earthquake, drought, hurricanes, tornadoes, landslides, take you pick.  Mongolia is VERY unlikely to ever have a hurricane, by the way
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Typhoons occur in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean; Hurricanes occur in the Atlantic Ocean.
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In meteorology, a tropical cyclone is a storm system with a closed circulation around a center of low pressure, fueled by the heat released when moist air rises and condenses. The name underscores their origin in the tropics and their cyclonic nature. They are distinguished from other cyclonic storms such as nor'easters and polar lows by the heat mechanism that fuels them, which makes them "warm core" storm systems.\n\nDepending on their strength and location, a tropical cyclone can be called a tropical depression, tropical storm, hurricane, or typhoon, among other names.\n\nTropical cyclones can produce extremely high winds, tornadoes, torrential rain (leading to mudslides and flash floods), and drive storm surge onto coastal areas. Though the effects on populations and ships can be catastrophic, tropical cyclones have been known to relieve drought conditions. They carry heat away from the tropics, an important mechanism of the global atmospheric circulation that maintains equilibrium in the environment.\n\nthey r just d same\n\nTerms used in weather reports for tropical cyclones that have surface winds over 64 knots (73.6 mph) or 32 m/s vary by region:\n\nHurricane: Atlantic basin and North Pacific Ocean east of the International date line \nTyphoon: Northwest Pacific west of the dateline \nSevere tropical cyclone: Southwest Pacific west of 160°E and the southeast Indian Ocean east of 90°E \nSevere cyclonic storm: North Indian Ocean \nTropical cyclone: Southwest Indian Ocean and the South Pacific east of 160°E. \nCyclone (unofficially): South Atlantic Ocean \nThere are many regional names for tropical cyclones, including baguio in the Philippines and Taino in Haiti.
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By "accure" do you mean "accrue"?  Well, hurricanes do increase in size (accrue) but only over moist, warm areas.  This increases wind speed and overall area (also why most hurricanes grow over warm oceans and occur near the Equator).
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location is the difference: hurricanes in the atlantic and east pacific, typhoons in the west pacific, and cyclones in the indian ocean and south pacific. \nhowever, tornadoes are a completely different phenomenon and are much more localized, small scale "twisters", that can at times have winds of nearly 300 MPH (way higher than the most powerful hurricanes).