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 but not necessarily the same as a bomb cyclone. So, typhoon vs.

The terms hurricane, typhoon and tropical cyclone can all refer to the same kind of storm. A tropical cyclone is a broad classification, used to describe any weather phenomenon characterized by ...

Guam sits within an area of the western North Pacific known as typhoon alley, according to National Weather Service warning ...

The term cyclone is used when the storms occur in ... Image: Storm-tossed waters batter the coast of Osaka after a typhoon in 2018. Pic: Kyodo/AP They can of course be devastating if they reach ...

The basic definition of a typhoon is the same as that of a hurricane: a tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds of at least 74 m.p.h. But several Asian countries have their own typhoon ...

Hurricane Dora became Typhoon Dora as it crossed the international date line into the western Pacific Ocean late Friday, becoming only the second tropical system on record to remain at hurricane ...

hurricane or typhoon — A warm-core tropical cyclone in which the minimum sustained surface wind is 74 mph (119 kph) or more. Hurricanes are spawned east of the international date line.

Three new tropical cyclone names have been added to 2025's list of typhoon names in the western North Pacific and the South China Sea, the Hong Kong Observatory announces.

Some scholars may argue that the Arabic word, tāfa, meaning “to turn around,” could have contributed to the modern word typhoon, NOAA said. Cyclone has origins in ancient Greek, the ...