Q: What’s the difference between a cyclone, a hurricane, a
monsoon and a typhoon?
Q: What’s the difference between a cyclone, a hurricane, a monsoon and a typhoon?
A: It’s basically a question of location. Hurricanes and typhoons are both warm-core tropical cyclones, which are storms with strong winds rotating around a center of low pressure and a minimum sustained surface wind of 74 miles per hour or more. A hurricane is spawned east of the international date line, while typhoons develop west of the line. In the Indian Ocean, they are known as cyclones. A monsoon is a warm seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and South Asia, and is also the rainy season during which the wind blows from the south west.
Webster’s New World Dictionary and The Associated Press Stylebook.
