Somebody asked earlier, typhoon is a name used for storms that form west of the International Date Line in the western Pacific, the storms in central Pacific around the hawaiian islands and in the eastern Pacific near Mexico are called hurricanes. Storms in the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea and in the South Pacific are called cyclones. There have only been one or two in the South Atlantic, those are also called hurricanes.
The big windstorm in the Pacific Northwest on Columbus Day of 1962 was the remnants of hurricane Freda from the central Pacific. Sometimes remnants of typhoons also reach western North America, usually in October or November.
I remember the Columbus Day storm from my childhood. I wonder if you still see flat-topped evergreen trees around Portland? Lots of them had their tops snapped off by that storm, and it was a common sight for a long time.
Yes. They exchange the title “hurricane” and “typhoon” if they cross over that line. I believe one went back and forth a couple of times.