Typhoon is mainly used around the Pacific Rim. The word represents the pronunciation (in Catonese) of the two Chinese characters for “big wind.” Many of its paramenters reflect the definition of hurricanes.
In thie country, “hurricane” means “wall-to-wall minute by minute coverage of a tropical disturbance which may or may not turn into a damaging hurricane but which blots out every other news item on every one of the networks for hours and days on end so completely that Al-Qaeda might as well furlough all their terrorists as no deed they might possibly commit no matter how murderous would ever make it onto the daily news cycle until this stupid storm with the funny name finally dries up and goes away.”
My TV stays off until next week BTW. Nothing to listen to but some good recorded music.