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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A bomb cyclone, or bombogenesis, will be dominating headlines over the next day or two as a ‘once in a decade‘ bomb cyclone ...
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 ...
A new white paper from reinsurance company Munich Re reveals that the 2024 tropical cyclone season, characterised by ...
Measuring 1,380 miles in diameter (further than London to Romania), the super typhoon travelled a 20-day path around the ...
An estimated more than 700,000 people had lost power across Western Washington as of early Wednesday morning, according to ...
Damage caused by extreme weather events is increasing. The 2024 tropical cyclone season was exceptional, with violent storms ...