Typhoons
They are called cyclones in the Indian Ocean and typhoons in the western Pacific and Philippines region.
Yes to all three. Note, though that the storms that we call hurricanes are only called hurricanes in the Atlantic and parts of the Pacific in the northern hemisphere. When they occur around Australia they are called cyclones.
Hurricanes are in a class of storm called tropical cyclones. Such storms rotate counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern. In a strict sense, the term hurricane is only applied to tropical cyclones in parts of the northern hemisphere, so they do rotate counterclockwise.
Hurricanes are called cyclones in the southern hemisphere. However, all hurricanes technically qualify as tropical cyclones.
Yes. Hurricanes spin counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern (where they are called cyclones). However, because the hurricanes are so large, a person on the ground would not notice the rotation.
It is a hurricane that forms under the equater. In the northern hemisphere hurricanes turn counter-clockwise. They are called Typhoons in the southern hemisphere and recently a Hurricane was seen to cross the equator which is very worrying for our future climate.
A hurricane that forms in the Atlantic is simply called a hurricane.
Hurricanes in Bangladesh are called cyclones.
In the Northern Hemisphere, hurricanes and tornadoes typically rotate counterclockwise. This is due to the Coriolis effect, which causes moving air to be deflected to the right in the Northern Hemisphere.
'Cyclone' is the generic term for cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons. These tropical storms are called 'cyclones' in the Southern Hemisphere, and they rotate in a clockwise direction. In the northern hemisphere, where cyclones occur in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean, they are called hurricanes and those in the South China Sea and regions of Asia are called typhoons. Northern hemisphere cyclones rotate anti-clockwise, so are sometimes called "anti-cyclones".
Yes, hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere rotate counterclockwise, while hurricanes in the Southern Hemisphere rotate clockwise due to the Coriolis effect. This effect is caused by the Earth's rotation and influences the direction of movement of large-scale systems like hurricanes.
No, but they do in the southern one.