What is the difference between a Typhoon and a Hurricane?
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Hurricane/Storm Differences\n\nHurricane is the name given to violent storms that originate over the tropical or subtropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, or North Pacific Ocean east of the International Date Line. Such storms over the North Pacific west of the International Date Line are called typhoons; those elsewhere are known as tropical cyclones, which is the general name for all such storms including hurricanes and typhoons. These storms can cause great damage to property and loss of human life due to high winds, flooding, and large waves crashing against shorelines. \n\nStorm is an atmospheric disturbance in the form of strong winds usually accompanied by rain, snow, or other precipitation and sometimes accompanied by lightning or thunder.\nstorms characterized by area of low atmospheric pressure surrounded by a wind system and often accompanied by rain,storm characterized by extreme cold, strong winds, and heavy snowfall,destructive, violently whirling wind incorporating a funnel-shaped cloud,electrical discharge in the atmosphere often accompanied by thunder
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They are called extra-tropical systems. An extra-tropical system would not normally have hurricane characteristics, such as an eye, therefore would not be called a hurricane...unless it developed into a warm core system. Easy, huh?
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Cyclones fare better in larger, warmer bodies of water. Land creates winds which tend to tear cyclones apart.
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By definition, a hurricane is fierce rotating storm with an intense centre of low pressure that only happens in the tropics. In south-east Asia they're known as typhoons and in the Indian Ocean, cyclones.\nThey cause high winds, huge waves, and heavy flooding. One of the most powerful of all weather systems, hurricanes are powered by the heat energy released by the condensation of water vapour. However, the conditions have to be exact for a hurricane to form, with the sea's surface temperature being above 26.5°C.\n\nStorm surge\nThis is caused by the intense low pressure at the eye of a hurricane, combining with the effect of strong winds. The sea rises 1cm for every millibar of pressure - if the pressure is 930 millibar, the sea surge will be about 80 cm. Hurricanes can raise the seas surface by as much as 4m.\n\nThe hurricane winds push the surge along in front of its path. When this surge hits low-lying coasts, the effects can be devastating. In addition to the sea surge, flooding can also result from torrential rain falling from the storm clouds.\n\nTsunamis\nA tsunami (pronounced tsoo-nah-mee) is a chain of fast moving waves caused by sudden trauma in the ocean. They can be generated by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or even the impact of meteorites. Tsunami are also incorrectly known as tidal waves, but unlike tidal waves they are not caused by changes in the tides.\n\nThey are most common around the edge of the Pacific, where more than half of the world's volcanoes are found. These seismic surges can assault coastlines, often with little or no warning. Rocks weighing as much as 20 metric tonnes have been plucked from sea walls and carried 180m inland. \n\nWave power\nTsunamis aren't like wind-generated waves that rhythmically roll onto a beach. A tsunami can have a wavelength (ie distance between wave crests) in excess of 100km (60 miles) and there may be an hour between them. They travel at great speeds across an ocean with hardly any energy losses and are barely noticeable out at sea.\n\nOver the deep Pacific Ocean, a tsunami travels at about 800kph (500mph). If an earthquake happened in Los Angeles, a tsunami could hit Tokyo quicker than you could fly between the cities by jet. The tsunami caused by the earthquake off the coast of Indonesia in late 2004 travelled 4,500km (2,800 miles) to Somalia in East Africa in just seven hours.\n\nAs a tsunami leaves the deep water of the open ocean and travels into the shallower water near the coast, it behaves like a normal wave - only with more muscle.\n\nShallow water slows the tsunami and its height grows. Tsunamis batter the coast with tremendous amounts of energy. They can strip sand from beaches, tearing up trees, and even obliterating whole towns. Some have been known to reach as much as 30m above sea level. \n\n\nThe only way they may be alike is that because of a Hurricane, you might have huge waves, but still, waves generated by Tsunami would be larger.
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Yea, i heard about it once i was old enough to understand what a typhoon actually does.\nHAVE A NICE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :}
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In all reality, Hurricanes are thunderstorms that have gotten out of hand. The following website explains in further detail. It may be slow to load, but it's a great informative site! Hope this answers your question!\n\nhttp://science.howstuffworks.com/hurricane2.htm\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane
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Tornado, lasts minutes.  Thunderstorms hours, Blizzard hours to a day or so.  Hurricane, day to several days.
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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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Are you looking for tropical cyclone prediction? This might be helpful:\n\nhttp://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
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You should find all the info you need here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane#Structure_and_classification
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The storms comparable to hurricanes that originate in the Pacific ocean are called typhoons.  \n\nI am sorry to say that it looks like Japan might have another very severe typhoon season this year.  In one very recent year they had far more than normal.\n\nOn rare occasions hurricanes can cross from the Carribean into the Pacific and regain strength becoming typhoons and vice versa.\n\nI believe they are called typhoons also when they hit China and the Philippines.\n\nFor Australia and India they are called cyclones, and that is also the generic name for all three.\n\nTyphoons can be the most spectacularly strong of all cyclones, and certainly hold the record for size.  Not difficult to understand when you consider the size of the Pacific Ocean and the fact that it is subject to heating as are the Atlantic and the Carribean, Gulf of Mexico.\n\nYou can monitor the potential for these by using the AVISO urls (sea level anomalies) found at my weather blog:\n\nhttp://360.yahoo.com/ki_te_moana\n\nThere is comprehensive weather info there if you take the time to delve into the blog and the Blog Roll.
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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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at a typhoon factory.
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wind damage for some distance inland with most of the damage close to shore.  The storm surge can tear down buildings and drag them to the sea and it can wash large amount of beach out to sea (extreme erosion).  The rainfall can cause flooding in low lieing areas.\n\nIt depends on the category of the storm (1 being weakest wind, 5 being strongest), how close to shore you are, the geography of the region, the preparedness of the region hit (places that are hit often have building codes that minimize damage) and how slow the storm is moving.  A hurricane that decides to just sit on you for awhile can do a lot of damage.
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Read: http://www.answers.com/topic/hurricane?gwp=19
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No.  If you watch the news during hurricane season, you see tropical storms and other systems developing off the western coast of Mexico.  These are called typhoons but rarely actually hit the U.S.  However, due to currents and air temperatures, hurricanes do tend to form off the coast of Africa.  The hurricane's direction depends on the jet stream and upper air currents, though.  That's why some hurricanes glided right into the Gulf of Mexico, while others were forced back out to sea before even touching the U.S.  Not to mention, what's east of one continent is west of another.
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Cyclones,hurricanes and typhoons are caused by warm tropical moister bearing clouds developing in open oceans or seas,as the atmosphere becomes favorable for development,(no wind sharing in the higher parts of the atmosphere)normal thunder storm or clump together,as the system gets larger the the pressure fall within it,what causes a system to go anti clock wise is the earth spinning on its axis(in the southern hemisphere cyclones and etc, spins in reverse when compared to the northern hemisphere).\n\nWith the help of trade winds which stares these immense giant weather systems across areas of the planet,also. but the main thing to is that they all start out as small disturbances,or low pressure areas that come into favorable areas for development. \n\nThe same is also almost true for northers or nor_Easters along the east coast of the US in winter months.\n\nOr if you are talking about tornadoes,well that the process of cold air from the north clashing with warm air from the Gulf of Mexico,as both air bodies moves along side each other a funnel shape spiral is form,this normally occur es at best in super cell charged thunder cell,due to day time heating or the leading edge of a cold front,the jet stream in this case does the staring of All weather phenomenons across the USA,and the direction at which the spiral goes is anti clock wise,caused by the earth spinning on its axis.hope this helps.