0
Want this question answered?
Be notified when an answer is posted
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Which two bodies of water mostly form tropical cyclones that affect the Philippines?
The South Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.
Where are cyclones found?
southwestern Pacific Ocean or Indian Ocean.
Where in Australia do cyclones hit most?
Cyclones hit anywhere from the northwestern coast to the northeast coast. They may form in the Indian Ocean, the Arafura Sea or the Coral Sea.
What are the storm over the Indian ocean called?
cyclones
What is a cyclone in the Indian Ocean known as in the Pacific ocean?
Cyclones in both the Indian ocean and the Pacific Ocean are called cyclones.They are known as hurricanes in the Caribbean and the Americas, and typhoons in Asia.
Why does Queensland have cyclones?
Northern Australia and the waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans generate ideal conditions for the development of cyclones. Cyclones need warm cean temperatures of 26.5 degrees or higher to form. The sea currents around northern Australia, the Indian Ocean to its northwest and the Coral Sea to the northeast have these warmer sea currents. Not all of Australia has cyclones, because regions further south do not have warm enough waters to generate the conditions needed.
What is the trigger for most Indian ocean cyclones?
Thunderstorms in the equatorial trough.
Do Tropical cyclones ever leave the tropics?
Typhoons, cyclones, and hurricanes are the same thing. Typhoons occur in the western Pacific Ocean Hurricanes occur in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico; intense form of tropical storm Cyclones occur near the Indian Ocean and Australia. They need very warm ocean water and an air disturbance to keep warm air rising to last.
What places do cyclones mostly occur in?
Over warm, tropical waters, including the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and Indian Ocean.
Do typhoons occur in the Indian Ocean?
They do. But they are not called typhoons there. They are called intense tropical cyclones.
What is a cyclone called in Asia?
In the Far East, a hurricane is called a typhoon. Hurricanes and typhoons are types of tropical cyclones. In other regions of the world, such as the Caribbean area or parts of the North Atlantic Ocean, these storms are called hurricanes.
What are hurricanes called in the Indian ocean what are hurricanes called in western northern pacific and Philippines?
They are called cyclones in the Indian Ocean and typhoons in the western Pacific and Philippines region.
