So why do we call one a hurricane and the other a typhoon? And while we're at it - what exactly is a cyclone? They are all the same thing: tropical storms. But they are known by different names in ...
A storm by any other name… is just a storm? Yes, a hurricane is the same as a typhoon, which is also the same as a cyclone ...
But what is a hurricane - and how is it different from a cyclone or a typhoon? Well technically they're all the same thing - large rapidly rotating storm systems that meteorologists call 'tropical ...
the word “hurricane” is used, the Western North Pacific calling the system’s “typhoons,” and the western South Pacific and Indian oceans deem the storms “cyclones.” While hurricanes ...
To be called as a typhoon, cyclone or hurricane, a storm must attain a speed of at least 119 kilometres per hour. Storms occurring in different oceans have different characteristics and go by ...
A bomb cyclone, or bombogenesis, will be dominating headlines over the next day or two as a ‘once in a decade‘ bomb cyclone ...
According to global reinsurance giant Munich Re, both economic and insurance market losses from tropical cyclone activity ...
An estimated more than 700,000 people had lost power across Western Washington as of early Wednesday morning, according to ...
A new white paper from reinsurance company Munich Re reveals that the 2024 tropical cyclone season, characterised by ...
A bomb cyclone, or bombogenesis, will be dominating headlines over the next day or two as a 'once in a decade' bomb cyclone ...
Measuring 1,380 miles in diameter (further than London to Romania), the super typhoon travelled a 20-day path around the ...
Exceptionally severe storms during the 2024 tropical cyclone season resulted in damages well above the 10-year average, according to German reinsurance giant Munich Re.