What's the difference between a hurricane and a cyclone?

Question

What's the difference between a hurricane and a cyclone?

Answer 1

Hurricanes-north of the equator

Cyclone-south of the equator

Usually

Answer 2

Some of these answers are awful.

Yes, they both form over water.  Wow.

The difference is that a hurricane has a counter-clockwise rotation while a cyclone has a clockwise rotation.

This is due to the fact to the fact that hurricanes form in the northern hemisphere while cyclones form in the southern hemisphere.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

hurricanes come from water

Answer 5

a hurricane forms over water but hits land where as a cyclone is a little different its a terrible storm out at sea

Answer 6

I did not check the link answer, the other 7 are completely wrong.

Hurricane is a carib origin name, caribs were an indian tribe in several caribbean islands

Cyclone is a Greek name.

both reffer to the same phemomenom. Usually cyclons are called in the east pacific, and hurricane in the atlantic.

It is coriolis effect what makes hurricanes, cyclones, tiphons, baguios turn ccw in the northern hemisphere, and cw in southern.

Answer 7

THEY BOTH TWIST

Answer 8

a hurricane forms over water.

Answer 9

A cyclone is what they call a hurricane in the Australia area, that's what I heard.