What is the difference in a cyclone, Tornado, hurricane, typhoon?

Question

What is the difference in a cyclone, Tornado, hurricane, typhoon?

Answer 1

Yes, White Guy is kind of right but typhoons are the same as hurricanes, like you said, but they only occur in the Pacific ocean hurricanes are in the Atlantic. And they can be in the Northern Hemisphere but only if, they form in the Southern Hemisphere.

Answer 2

A cyclone is an area of low atmospheric pressure characterized by inward spiraling winds that rotate counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere of the Earth.

A tornado is a violently rotating column of air, going up from the ground along a warm front. It is caused from cold air rotating clockwise and downward and, therefore, causing another whirl of warm and moist air rotating upward and anticlockwise.

A hurricane is a  severe tropical cyclone originating in the equatorial regions of the Atlantic Ocean or Caribbean Sea or eastern regions of the Pacific Ocean, traveling north, northwest, or northeast from its point of origin, and usually involving heavy rains.

A typhoon is a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans.

Actually all those terms are just the same.

Depending on their location and strength, tropical cyclones are referred to by other names, such as hurricane, typhoon, tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression and simply cyclone.

Answer 3

Hurricanes and tornadoes occur in the northern hemisphere where they spin clockwise; in the southern hemisphere the very same weather phenomena are called typhoons and cyclones, but they spin counter clockwise due to the coriolis effect.