What is the Difference Between a Cyclone, Typhoon and Hurricane?

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[Oztrich Boy]

Not even close

Cyclone

Typhoon

Hurricane

[commish]

The spelling

[Joan Kerrey]

I think it’d be cool to experience a strong hurricane once.

I experienced a Typhoon when I was 9 years old in Japan as an army dependent in the early 50s. Our house was on an Island protected by a 10 foot sea wall and was directly across a roadway from the wall. It was awsome to watch until the waves stated breaking over the wall and onto the roadway. Then fear I had never experienced kicked in and we ran for our lives toward higher ground. Eventually we spotted a military bus making the rounds to all the homes on the Island spending the rest of the night in a messhall on higher ground. It was scary. Our house was washed away minutes after we left it.

[Bikkuri]

;)
Seriously.. imagine trying to explain the the insurance co (Allstate) that you lost your Hurricane in a hurricane ;)

I actually have a pic of me next to it next to my dorm.. but not posting for safety reasons ;) (not that it would matter.. I had hair back then, even if it was a high and tight, it was more than I have now (btw, I had to get permission from the base commander for that haircut, believe it or not.. it wasn’t considered ‘tapered’.. man, I miss the simplicity of the military days... lol) :D )

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Hurricanes take money from Nevin Shapiro.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

People often think they are one in the same.

The grammar, spelling and punctuation doesn't get much better following this.

One thing to say in favor of the MSM: they have better proofreaders.

[12Gauge687]

Thank you for sending the correct characters; the English means “strong wind” not what I first thought it was in Cantonese. The closest pronunciation in Mandarin would be “tai fung.”

[Clive]

A hurricane is a tropical cyclone. So is a typhoon. So is a tropical storm.

The general case is "tropical cyclone", the other terms are special instances having to do with their location on the globe or their intensity.