What is a cyclone?

Question

What is a cyclone?

Answer 1

Its another name for a hurricane.  A hurricane, typhoon, and cyclone are the same storms just different names.

-In the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans are called hurricanes.

-In the  Western Pacific they are called  typhoons

-In the Indian Ocean they are called  cyclones

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http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/jetstream/tr...

Answer 2

it is a terrible weather condition with a muixture of strong gusty winds, and heavy rains flooding places and rendering many  people homeless

Answer 3

A cyclone is an intense vortex or a whirl in the atmosphere with very strong winds circulating around it in an anti-clockwise direction in the Northern hemisphere and clockwise direction in the Southern hemisphere.

In short,cyclones are intense low pressure areas-- from the centre of which pressure increases outwards.The tropical revolving storms forming over the Indian ocean only are called cyclones.