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 ...
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 ...
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 ...