What is a typhoon?

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What is a typhoon?

Answer 1

A tropical cyclone or hurricane of the western Pacific area and the China seas.

Answer 2

It is a hurricane or cyclone in the Pacific.  It is an area of low pressure that became a tropical storm.  It has winds in excess of  74 MPH.

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Answer 3

Hurricane, name applied to migratory tropical cyclones that originate over oceans in certain regions near the equator, and particularly to those arising in the West Indian region, including the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane-type cyclones in the western Pacific are known as typhoons.

Answer 4

A typhoon is the local name for a revolving tropical storm in the indian ocean. In the North Atlantic, the same phenomenon is called a Hurricane.

Answer 5

The word describes a weather phenomenon in which the wind blows around a low pressure area. In the same family with typhoons are whirlwinds, tornadoes and waterspouts. But the typhoon is the largest of them all in breadth, in height and in wind velocity. Indeed, when the wind speed is in excess of seventy-five miles per hour, that is a typhoon. Similar storms are called “hurricanes” in the Caribbean area and the eastern part of the United States.

When one considers the tremendous energy that is released by a typhoon, one cannot help wondering where it all comes from. The answer is that it comes from water vapor. Just think of it in this way: Much heat is required completely to evaporate a kettle of water on a stove. All that heat is then locked, so to speak, in the water vapor. The energy absorbed during the process of evaporation could now be released if we caused the same amount of water vapor to condense back into the liquid state.

Answer 6

A typhoon is a hurricane that occurs in places like China, the Philippines and Japan.. The ones in the Atlantic and adjacent to California are called Hurricanes and most commonly in India as Cyclones.