Cyclone, Hurricane, and Typhoon, What’s the Difference?
What is the difference between a typhoon, a cyclone, and a hurricane? They are all just storms given different names depending on which part of the globe you are in.
Typhoon, cyclone, and hurricane are simply different names given to a tropical storm.
Hurricane is the term for a tropical storm that forms over the eastern surface of the international date line in the Pacific Ocean and around the Atlantic Ocean.
They are called Cyclones if they form over the Indian ocean and in the Coral Sea in northeastern Australia.
Tropical storms that form in the northern Pacific Ocean west of the international date line are called Typhoons.
A storm can be named and will be a tropical storm if it has winds of 63 kph (74 mph).
A storm can only be called a Cyclone, Hurricane or Typhoon when its wind speed reaches 119 kph (74 mph).
If a storm is formed in the northern hemisphere, it will rotate counterclockwise and if in the south, it will rotate clockwise.
