Besides being on opposite sides of the world what is the difference between a hurricane and a typhoon?

Question

Besides being on opposite sides of the world what is the difference between a hurricane and a typhoon?

Answer 1

Aside from the name, not much. Both are severe tropical systems that have wind speeds greater than 74 mph.



They 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."



Typhoons 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.

Answer 2

Nothing. They are basically the same, just in different oceans. But the worst thing you have to cope with isn't a typhoon or hurricane it is waterspouts. Some are more than a mile wide and rise to the sky. Think of a tornado on the ocean.

Answer 3

A hurricane is a severe tropical cyclone originating in the equatorial regions of the Atlantic Ocean or Caribbean Sea or eastern regions of the Pacific Ocean, traveling north, northwest, or northeast from its point of origin, and usually involving heavy rains.

A wind with a speed greater than 74 miles (119 kilometers) per hour, according to the Beaufort scale.



A Typhoon is a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans. 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.



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. A violent tropical storm, especially one originating in the southwestern Pacific Ocean or Indian Ocean. A violent rotating windstorm.

Answer 4

A hurricane and a typhoon are both dangerous storms but a hurricane forms in the atlantic ocean and a typhoon forms in the pacific ocean.

Answer 5

Not a thing, the names are geographical. Hurricane, Typhoon, Cyclone. A waterspout, howeverm is a tornado that touches down on water and does not make landfall.

Answer 6

the only difference the two are the names

Answer 7

One spins clockwise; the other spins counterclockwise.