What is the differents between a Cyclone and a Hericane?

Question

What is the differents between a Cyclone and a Hericane?

Answer 1

They are both a type of storm but a Cyclone is like... a tornadoe type thing and a Hurricane is a really strong storm without a like.... twist in it like a tornadoe.

Answer 2

Same weather different geography

Answer 3

A cyclone is a low pressure atmospheric mass. In the northern hemisphere they rotate counterclockwise. A high pressure mass is called an anticyclone and rotates clockwise.

Atlantic hurricanes are birthed almost entirely in one of two places: the Gulf of Mexico and the west coast of Africa. Interestingly (and I may be wrong here), the African low pressure pockets seem to form over land, and then pinwheel on out to sea on a journey to the Caribbean.

Hurricanes and typhoons are the same animal depending on where you live. In the Atlantic (and often the North American Pacific coast, where they are quite rare) they are called hurricanes. Everywhere else in the world they are called typhoons.

Answer 4

A Hurricane is a cyclone.  So is a typhoon (same as hurricane essentially) and mid lattitude lows which are called mid lattitude cyclones and even tornadoes on a much smaller scale.  :)

Answer 5

not much difference...cyclones could happen on land but hurricanes cant and they call hurricanes cyclones on some parts of the world

Answer 6

They are both the same type of storm system.  A Cyclone (note capitalization) is the same thing as a hurricane, except that it is called a Cyclone over the northern Indian Ocean.  A typhoon is also the same thing, but it is located over the western Pacific Ocean.  They are termed hurricanes over the Atlantic basin and the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Answer 7

Cyclones are in the Pacific Ocean and Hurricanes are in the Atlantic Ocean other than that they are both violent windstorms that cause major destruction if they hit land.