What is the difference between a cyclone, typhoon and a hurricane?

Question

What is the difference between a cyclone, typhoon and a hurricane?

Answer 1

To add to the correspondents below.

Off NW Australia they are known as 'Willy Willy's'  - an aboriginal expression , which has stuck in this part of the Indian Ocean.

Answer 2

a cyclone is something which is natural

typhoon is a huge unnatural cyclone

hurricane is a violent breeze

but iam a cool lover of u

is the image of u a real one

ok then show only ur face i love only ur heart

i dont care of ur structure and body

Answer 3

hurricanes form over the oceans north and south of the equator. hurricanes develop from disturbances in the equatorial belt. they have warm eye or core, where the air pressure is extremely low. above the eye is a region of high air pressure, from which air descends. they are called hurricanes in the southern Pacific and northern Atlantic, typhoons in the western Pacific, and cyclones in the Indian Ocean.

Answer 4

Hurricanes and Typhoons are cyclones, the difference being location. Hurricanes originate in the equatorial regions of the Atlantic Ocean or Caribbean Sea while Typhoons occur the western Pacific or Indian oceans. This distinction was taught in the 60's but now seems to have gotten confused because even meteorologists have been using the terms erroneously.

Answer 5

In meteorology, a cyclone is an area of low atmospheric pressure characterized by inward spiraling winds that rotate counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere of the Earth.

Pacific typhoon refers to tropical cyclones forming in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The basin is demarcated within the Pacific Ocean from Asia, north of the equator, and west of the international date line. Storms from the Eastern and Central Pacific crossing the date line are re-designated as typhoons. This basin features the strongest cyclones on record.

Typhoon seasons include the entirety of the calendar year. Most storms tend to form between May and November.

hurricane most commonly denotes a tropical cyclone. The term is most often used for cyclones occurring in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans.

A tropical cyclone is a storm system characterized by a low pressure center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and flooding rain.

Answer 6

cyclone:winds rotating inwards to an area of low barometric pressure.

typhoon:violent hurricane in east asian seas.

Hurricane:storm with a violent winds, esp in Western Indian cyclone.

Answer 7

well a cyclone  is an area of low atmospheric pressure characterized by inward spiraling winds that rotate counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere of the Earth.typhoon refers to tropical cyclones forming in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. an hurricane an typoon are the same i think they are formed in diff. oceans so they get diff. names

Answer 8

same thing  called by different names in different continents

Answer 9

a cyclone or a tropical cycole?



cyclone is an area of low atmospheric pressure characterized by inward spiraling winds that rotate counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere of the Earth. [1][2] The generic term covers a wide variety of meteorological phenomena. These include tropical cyclones,and extratropical cyclones, so meteorologists rarely use "cyclone" without additional qualification.

And a tropical cyclone is a storm system characterized by a low pressure center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and flooding rain. A tropical cyclone feeds on the heat released when moist air rises and the water vapor it contains condenses.

typhoon refers to tropical cyclones forming in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The basin is demarcated within the Pacific Ocean from Asia, north of the equator, and west of the international date line.[1] Storms from the Eastern and Central Pacific crossing the date line are re-designated as typhoons. This basin features the strongest cyclones on record.Typhoon seasons include the entirety of the calendar year. Most storms tend to form between May and November.

Every year between June 1 and November 30 (commonly called hurricane season), hurricanes threaten the ­eastern and gulf coasts of the United States, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. In other parts of the world, the same types of storms are called typhoons or cyclones.

Answer 10

Cyclone is in the shape of V goes up to sky

Typhoon is coming from one side to other and hurricane is hurricane