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Yes. If a hurricane occurs in the Pacific Ocean north of the equator and west of the International Date Line it is called a typhoon.
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Where do people call hurricanes typhoons?
Hurricanes are called typhoons in the Northwest Pacific Ocean region. Typhoons and hurricanes are essentially the same type of storm, but they are given different names based on the region in which they occur.
What do other country's call cyclones?
Americans tend to call them Hurricanes and in Asia they usually call the Typhoons.
Where to find typhoons?
Typhoons are what they call the large storms in the eastern Pacific and the Indian Oceans. They are called hurricanes in the eastern Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
What is the massive storms which bring much rain to Asia are called?
They call their hurricanes typhoons.
What do other countries call hurricanes?
Other countries may refer to hurricanes as typhoons or cyclones, depending on the region. Typhoons are typically used in the Northwest Pacific, while cyclones are used in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean.
What are the hurracanes in America called?
We call them hurricanes and sometimes, on the west coast, they refer to them as typhoons.
Where do hurricanes originate that hit Japan?
The storms that we call hurricanes are called typhoons in the waters near east and southeast Asia. These storms usually originate in the tropical waters of the western Pacfic Ocean.
What are places where hurricanes form?
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Are tornadoes or hurricanes call 'twisters'?
Tornadoes are called "twisters." Hurricanes are sometimes called "tropical storms" before they reach violent wind speeds, and are referred to as "typhoons" in the Pacific. Both tornadoes and hurricanes can be called "cyclones" because they both have violently rotating wind.
How and where do typhoons start?
Typhoons usually start when a storm occurs mainly in areas close to the ocean (borders). They start off as tropical thunderstorms. Its basically just like hurricanes and cyclones. Its just that the place where they start that gives it its name. For example, they call that storm a typhoon in Japan.
What do people in the US call tornadoes?
tropical cyclones are called "hurricanes" in the North Atlantic Ocean and Eastern and Central Pacific Ocean east of the international dateline. They are called "typhoons" or sometimes "super typhoons" if they are really strong in the Pacific Ocean west of the dateline. They are known as "cyclones" in the North Indian Ocean and in the Southern hemisphere
Are storms in the Pacific Ocean called hurricanes?
It depends on 3 things.They must be tropicalThey must produce sustained winds of at least 74 mphThey must occur in the potion east of the International Date Line and north of the equatorStorms of the same type west of the date line are called typhoons and ones south of the equator are called cyclones. The only country in the world that has hurricanes on the Pacific Ocean is Mexico, no other, none, we have them all, you like everybody else have them over our gulf, The Gulf of Mexico, but we have the largest Pacific sea board in America, so we get all the storms which we always call Huricanes.
