What is the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane?

Question

What is the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane?

Answer 1

A typhoon and a hurricane are known as tropical cyclones.  They both occur in tropical oceans where the sea temperature is above 26°C.   Since they develop under similar atmospheric conditions, there's no difference in their dynamical structure.  

People in different parts of the world have labelled tropical cyclones by different names.  It is called a typhoon in the North Pacific Ocean west of the International Date Line and a hurricane east of the International Date Line north of the equator, which is also in the North Pacific Ocean as well as on the eastern side of the United States in the North Atlantic Ocean.  

For a tropical cyclonic system to be called either a typhoon or a hurricane, the sustained windspeed needs to be at least 119km/hr (74miles/hr).  The centre of the tropical cyclone must have a warm cored eye.

Just to correct the previous person writing in.  Australia used to call

tropical cyclones as Willy Willies back in the 1920s.  The term Willy Willies these days is used to describe dust devils.  They are not at all related to tropical cyclones for obvious reasons.

However, since the 1930s, the term Willy Willy was changed to tropical cyclones and has been used ever since.

Answer 2

a typhoon is in the indian and pacific ocean in the parts of south eastern asia

hurricane is located at gulf coast and atlantic

Answer 3

there is some difference all I know you really don't get much of a chance to leave if one is coming your way when you hear one is on they way....................GET  OUT FAST!

Answer 4

It depends where the storm occurs. They are the same thing, but in different parts of the world. Hurricanes occur in the Atlantic ocean and typhoons occur in the Pacific ocean.

Answer 5

A hurricane is a tropical storm that happens in the Atlantic or Eastern Pacific, and a typhoon happens in the Western Pacific

Answer 6

They are the same exact storm with a different name. A hurricane only applies to a storm that forms in the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, the Carribean Sea, and the eastern end of the International date line above the equator. A typhoon is the name of the storm that forms in the Pacific Ocean and htis a country or goes near any countries in Asia and is on the western side  of the International date line. A cyclone is the same storm that forms in the Indian Ocean or the Pacific, and in Australia, some people call these storms Willy Willy's.

Answer 7

a hurricane can take  an whole area at once, possibly a whole state

a typhoon is tornado like

most commonly found in water

and progresses on land

Answer 8

Regional name difference as stated is correct. Here's the authoritative site to read about these beasts. It's a huge, well run site, with info you can trust:

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/A1.ht...